The "loop and a half"

[Ben Bacarisse]

bartc <bc at freeuk.com> writes:

> It is anyway not really acceptable these days for a long list of data
> to simply be typed in like that without any feedback at all. And 100%
> dependent on your typing Ctrl-D at the end and not Ctrl-C by
> mistake. This is not still the 1970s.

It was not acceptable in the 1970s either.  No one did it then and no
one does it now.  What you are actually saying is that it is not
acceptable that the option of unprompted input even exists.

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Ben.