Julian Squires

Thanks for all the thoughtful comments! I think that if you are considering porting the code to C++, you should fork this project. You have my blessing to do so,...

It could certainly serve as a basis, but I'll offer the following caveats: this code is rather old, could use a much better test suite, and is almost unmaintained. The...

Thank you for reporting this! (theological considerations of the issue title aside ;-)) I think I'll link back to https://github.com/chrisdone/hell/tree/54d032c1afe4cbae7e3d8a21746706b6263b9f9f and probably contact the author about it; maybe they can...

Link to some of these articles, too: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=parsing-shell#parsing-shell

This seems reasonable. I'll merge, if you don't mind making the following modifications: preserve the period at the end of the list; include the rationale in your PR description in...

Overwriting the original commit is exactly the correct behavior. This change should only be one commit.

I think it would be ok, in this case, to make `timeout` itself print a message to stdout so it gets displayed in the log on failure (possibly making it...

Oh, and if you do make this patch, I would write the message as `(sending ^D to exit shell)` as a parenthetical to reduce its visual distractiveness; or, I guess,...

My initial thought is that most uses of this would probably be better done with a modify macro. Is there a compelling example for `ssetf`?

Automated performance regression testing is of great interest to me; would you mind blogging at some point about how you're doing it on the Snabb Switch project?