From: Kris Maglione <bsdaemon@comcast.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] How can I shift a variable other than ?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:14:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070310051433.GF12719@kris.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c028b93b8ea8eef9cba3283b6a0b68dc@coraid.com>
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On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:46:46PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
>why wouldn't it be backwardly compatable?
>"(a b) = $*" is currently an error in rc. and i don't
>believe i've ever seen an rc script that depends on
>this error.
The problem is that then new scrips wouldn't be portable. It would be
fine for scripts which weren't intended to be portable, but in that
case, you may as well just use Inferno's sh or port es(1).
--
Kris Maglione
When in doubt, predict that the trend will continue.
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-10 4:46 erik quanstrom
2007-03-10 5:14 ` Kris Maglione [this message]
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2007-03-10 12:32 erik quanstrom
2007-03-10 17:30 ` Kris Maglione
2007-03-10 21:20 ` Dan Cross
2007-03-10 21:53 ` Kris Maglione
2007-03-10 22:20 ` Dan Cross
2007-03-11 12:12 ` matt
2007-03-11 20:23 ` Kris Maglione
2007-03-11 22:11 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-11 23:14 ` Martin Neubauer
2007-03-12 8:50 ` Kris Maglione
2007-03-12 12:26 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-12 13:37 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-03-12 13:39 ` Dan Cross
2007-03-12 15:22 ` Russ Cox
2007-03-12 17:05 ` Dan Cross
2007-03-12 18:41 ` Kris Maglione
2007-03-13 14:59 ` rog
2007-03-13 15:22 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-13 15:40 ` C H Forsyth
2007-03-13 17:45 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-03-13 20:39 ` Paweł Lasek
2007-03-13 17:32 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-03-09 4:38 erik quanstrom
2007-03-09 4:48 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-09 5:27 ` Federico G. Benavento
2007-03-09 5:31 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-09 7:00 ` Kris Maglione
2007-03-09 13:55 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-09 14:09 ` Kris Maglione
2007-03-09 14:33 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-09 14:37 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-09 4:57 ` lucio
2007-03-09 14:41 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-08 8:00 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2007-03-08 8:41 ` Russ Cox
2007-03-09 18:23 ` rog
2007-03-09 19:25 ` Kris Maglione
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