Re: rc futures

[Elliott Hughes <Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com>]

re: shift, i disagree with the idea of an "anyshift" function, given
that it's so easy to make an extended shift backwards-compatible.
see the patch i either posted here or mailed to tim earlier this year.
i seem to recall that my builtin was shorter or the same length as
the current one. i think it's silly to hack around something that we
can so easily and cleanly fix properly.

re: dot files
i agree that special treatment of dot files is mistake.

re: improved error reporting
this would be a great benefit. my own copy of rc is hacked to sort
of do this, but it's not quite right and you're as well off doing it
again from scratch (i know i would). rc should prefix its errors "rc: ".

re: = in args
this is a real pain, but i take your word for it that changing the
interpretation of = past the first non-assignment in a line is hard.

	-e

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