Re: rc futures

[Bengt Kleberg <bengt@softwell.se>]

> From: Tim Goodwin <tjg@star.le.ac.uk>

>  the aim is to round off (a very few) rough corners, without adding lots of new features or extra
> code.

Good.


> Point 8 is that you can say this:

>    fn foo { (x.y) = foo; echo $(x.y) }

> and `foo' works fine in the current shell, but not in descendant shells.

IMHO, that is definitly a bug.


>  I claim that $path and friends should not be exported by rc, nor
> (ever) interpreted by descendant rc processes.

I interpret this to mean that each rc process sets $path from $PATH
upon start-up, and then tracks changes to $path over to $PATH. $PATH
is then exported to descendant rc processes.
Correct?


> `.' should search `$path'
...
> [because] every other shell does, including (I'm told) the Plan 9 rc.

Iff Plan9 rc does, then ok (grudgingly :-)


> 17. Improved error reporting, 
...deleted
>    rc: `host' not found

Looks fine to me.


> 19. Discard autoconf and automake.

> This deserves a separate thread.

Please start it.



Best Wishes, Bengt
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