G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I approve of the handful of features GNU sed added, but it is _way_ too > tolerant in what it accepts. It should smash the user's fingers with a > diagnostic hammer if they wander off the path.
GNU sed supports an option '--posix', that makes it less tolerant. But still, it does not warn about unportable constructs (like e.g. a "gcc -Wall" warns about dangerous C code). Bruno
