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From: jules.merit.eurocorp.us@gmail.com (Jules Merit)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:12:08 -0700
Subject: [9fans] Why Plan 9 uses $ifs instead of $IFS?
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0x80000000 ... obviously it wastes time when running plan9 as RTL in a
HDL simulator.

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Anthony Martin <ality at pbrane.org> wrote:
> Note that variables in the Mashey shell were single letters
> in lower-case. $p was similar to $PATH in the Bourne shell.
>
> Maybe Tom just split the difference. Have you asked him? :)
>
>   Anthony
>