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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Fri,  9 Mar 2007 23:46:46 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] How can I shift a variable other than ?
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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. 

- erik

On Fri Mar  9 13:30:57 EST 2007, rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
> i doubt this would be too much trouble to implement in rc.
> (but who wants backwardly incompatible shell scripts?!)