2020-08-06, 01:36, Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils):
This is a lack of diagnosis that adds up to it being a feature that
a comment which does not close is closed implicitly by the end of
the string.
I can certainly live with that.
Once this kind of thing escapes into the wild, the safest thing is to
document it. A fix for this (like making date exit with a diagnostic and
failed termination status) will break something for someone somewhere.
I agree. Do you think I should submit a patch?
You can fix looseness in compilers more easily because when you
tighten something in a compiler, the diagnostic blows up in the face
of a developer.
If you tighten something in a utility, something breaks in the field,
because it is a run-time check.
Well put. The historical context was interesting as well. Thank you.
