Re: Add sleep builtin

From	L A Walsh <bash@tlinx.org>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Add sleep builtin
Date	2018-08-27 14:25 -0700
Message-ID	<mailman.17.1535405234.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On 8/27/2018 11:54 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
>     From:        L A Walsh
>
>   | POSIX moved away from their original mission statement of being
>   | "descriptive" to one that is "prescriptive" a long time ago
>
> I don't think that's true - certainly not as much as other (related)
> standards (like those for C etc).
The C standard was never based on a mission statement of being
only "descriptive".  There was no expectation of it not changing.

If the POSIX standard had merely remained 'descriptive' it wouldn't
have been a problem.  However, it changed to be 'prescriptive'.  Other
standards, especially things like the 'C' standard were always meant to be
prescriptive.

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Re: Add sleep builtin L A Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> - 2018-08-27 14:25 -0700

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