Subject: Re: huh?

From: Scott Schwartz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 14:44:04 -0500

> i believe the difference is that ``x'' without a pattern
> immediately following it uses an implicit /^.*\n/

That convention is somewhat inconsistent, since spaces are ignored
elsewhere.  Now that @ is no longer used for fat-dot, maybe it could be
used instead.  I.e.  use ``x@''  instead of ``x '', to mean x/^.*\n/
and ignore spaces between tokens.