Re: Somewhat off-topic, but hard to find better portability people.

[James Youngman]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Peter Seebach <address@hidden> wrote:

> set -- args

Hmm, I certainly have a habit of doing this instead:

set x blablablablabla
shift

However, the only source file I can find that still does this was
written in 2002.   My guess is that I have used a system where this
didn't work, but not for a long time.  If I had to guess at a system
that might have a problem with the -- form, it would be either an old
Sun box (which you already indicated you would not be interested in)
or perhaps Sequent DYNIX/ptx 4.x.   While DYNIX/ptx 4.x did get y2k
patches, I still don't think it is a worthwhile porting target so I'd
not recommend trying to bother verifying the allegation I just made
anyway...

Thanks,
James.