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Re: PROCINFO["pma_version"] eventually ???

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From: m-collado@users.sourceforge.net (Manuel Collado)
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Subject: Re: PROCINFO["pma_version"] eventually ???
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 11:54:57 +0100
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by: Manuel Collado - Tue, 6 Dec 2022 10:54 UTC

El 06/12/2022 a las 2:46, J Naman escribió:
> Not urgent: Granted that PMA Avon 8 is still an "EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE!", eventually it will be helpful to have an internal variable such as PROCINFO["pma"] or PROCINFO["pma_version"] to provide the version or null if it is not in use or available.
> if(PROCINFO["pma"]) { do something } else { use rwarray extension ... }
> Right now, the only information to work with is the state of the GAWK_PERSIST_FILE environment variable.

Wouldn't it suffice to mention it in the --version information? Like
MPFR or MP?

....>gawk --version
GNU Awk 5.1.1, API: 3.1 (GNU MPFR 4.0.2, GNU MP 6.1.2)
....

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Re: PROCINFO["pma_version"] eventually ???	Manuel Collado