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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:57:58 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails
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es scans the bit inside the {} as a string and does not parse it until it is used.

- erik

On Thu Apr 20 01:09:02 CDT 2006, forsyth@terzarima.net wrote:
> >> es did this: anything passed to a function inside curly braces was passed verbatim.
> >
> > that was the main bit of es that i stole for the inferno shell. it works well,
> > and combined with dynamically loaded shell modules, makes many nice things quite
> > easy.
>
> i thought that in the inferno sh the bit inside the {} was parsed, and later converted
> back to a string if passed to a command (uniform treatment of {} as in `{}, and you
> discover your syntax errors in good time).  i don't remember what es did.
>