Re: [bug-gawk] sorting optab by long option name

[arnold]

Hi Andy.

> > No, it should be enabled by default. It's an Easter Egg. By definition
> > Easter Eggs aren't any good if they are disabled.
>
> I must be humorless, because I fail to see the entertainment value of a
> command-line switch that simply causes the program to call abort.  Isn't
> an Easter Egg supposed to do something mysterious and fun?

Early versions of Unix awk would print "awk: bailing out near line 1" on
almost any kind of error, as often as not acompanied by a core dump.
This option prints that message and core dumps, to recreate the entire
early experience, in all its heady fullness.

Please let it be; it's been there for 15 years or more.

> I think that if we sort it, parsedebug should be in proper sort order.  Here's
> a sorted version of the table (with a not-terribly-readable patch attached):

Looks good. Please push it to the stable branch and from there merge it
to master; mainly to keep the two code bases as much in sync as possible.

At some point I will perhaps be able to summon up some energy and start
real work on the master branch. Right now very little is happening there.

Thanks,

Arnold