As a learner, I tend toward parroting what is put in front of me.
Consequently, I write flag lines with zeros and never wondered whether that
number can be replaced with anything else. I've seen examples on various PM
tutorial sites which use other integers
:1 :
but don't explain them. What other numbers can be used in flag lines and what
do they signify? (Notably, David's mention of unasterisked conditions refers
to something I hadn't known: I thought all conditions have to begin with an
asterisk...)
Thanks!
On Friday 04 July 2003 01:21 pm, David W. Tamkin wrote:
Spaces on the flag line -- except in the middle of the name of an
explicit local lockfile -- are strictly arbitrary. Type it the way you
think looks prettier to you.
You could even put a space between the opening colon and the (usually
zero) number of unasterisked conditions, but AFAIK nobody does.
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