> On Mar 14, 2017, at 12:05 AM, Samuel Williams > <space.ship.travel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Viktor, do you mind clarifying why you don't think it's sensible > behaviour? Like, what specifically is wrong with this approach? > Perhaps I'm missing something important.
Poor orthogonality in tool design. The postmap(1) and postalias(1) utilities read key/value input and produce indexed tables with the verbatim input they are fed. Adding input data transformations is not part of the job description. -- Viktor.