From: Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] man rc patch
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 11:32:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1541935934.1883208.1572931672.480E2ACD@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <666DC733283F0655D5B3D817FDB6BF28@musolino.id.au>
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018, at 6:59 AM, Alex Musolino wrote:
> Why not just fix it? This patch [1] seems to do the trick for me.
>
> Perhaps also worth mentioning is that $"1 is redundant, since $#1 is
> always 1; just say $1.
why add code to support something which doesn't make sense? :) i thought it was a bug years ago, but then i realised there is no need for it. unlike the bourne shell, rc doesn't have an obsession with breaking up strings. once you've got a string in a variable, it's not going to be split again unless passed to eval. in fact, supporting $"1 could be said to be deceitful, hiding this great feature from newcomers. ;)
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-11 6:59 Alex Musolino
2018-11-11 11:32 ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2018-11-11 17:14 ` Joe M
2018-11-11 17:16 ` Joe M
2018-11-14 15:56 ` Ethan Gardener
2018-11-15 18:00 cinap_lenrek
2018-11-15 19:17 cinap_lenrek
2018-11-16 0:47 Alex Musolino
2018-11-16 7:32 cinap_lenrek
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