From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com ([206.184.139.15]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <44204>; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:25:21 -0500 Received: from rakitzis.com ([207.20.242.213]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.out) with ESMTP id RAA01228; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:04:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from byron@localhost) by rakitzis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA24556; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:03:24 -0700 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:03:24 -0500 From: Byron Rakitzis Message-Id: <200008230003.RAA24556@rakitzis.com> To: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: New rc snapshot, includes "the equals hack" >I fear that the current '=' hack is likely to deliver a fair amount of >the latter. I'm sorry, I wasn't arguing in favor of the equals hack, merely *some* equals hack to do the right thing. Of all your examples: ; echo =b is the most troubling since sh does the visually obvious thing, but rc allows spaces between the '=' and its operands. That can't change without breaking old scripts. Byron.