From: Tim Goodwin <tjg@star.le.ac.uk> To: paul@paulhaahr.com Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: rc 1.6 $version Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:31:30 -0500 Message-ID: <20020403143130.22327.qmail@happy.star.le.ac.uk> (raw) In-Reply-To: <8ZFwtjf51i@dmul.paulhaahr.com> Paul Haahr wrote: > > Any objections to `rc_version'? > > I'd prefer $rc-version, but either should be fine. (As it turns out, this is all irrelevant, but I have would two objections to this. First, `-' turns on free careting, so you'd have to say things like this. ; whatis $'rc-version' Not so bad, but wrap it in another level of quotes, perhaps from a less sane shell, and it starts to get *very* ugly. $ rc -c 'whatis $'"'rc-version'" Secondly, rc is meant to be C-ish, not Lisp-ish.) > However, making it such a magic variable feels silly. As Eric noted, > having assignments to a variable just be eaten without warning seems, > er, surprising at best. Mea culpa. I failed to realise that there are two types of special variable in rc: 1) those that merely have a default initial value, and 2) those that invoke special code when substituted. Till now, $version was in category 2. I've just moved it to category 1. Category 2 now contains just $apids and $status, which seems about right; they are both, of necessity, magical. Category 1 now contains $ifs, $path, $pid, $prompt, and $version. (I was surprised to discover that assignments to pid are persistent!) As a separate matter, several variables are not exportable. These are: $apid, $apids, $cdpath, $home, $ifs, $path, $pid, and $*. (Remember that $cdpath, $home, and $path are all aliased to upper case versions, which *are* exportable. Also, the default assignment to $path happens before $PATH is examined: so if $PATH is set, $path will acquire its value instead of the default.) I think $bqstatus and $status ought to be non-exportable too. I've just made them so; you can all see what this breaks in the next release candidate :-). Tim.
next prev parent reply index Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2002-03-14 22:37 erik quanstrom 2002-03-27 13:27 ` Tim Goodwin 2002-03-27 21:12 ` Carlo Strozzi 2002-03-30 18:43 ` Paul Haahr 2002-03-31 15:13 ` Carlo Strozzi 2002-04-03 14:31 ` Tim Goodwin [this message] 2002-04-03 15:06 ` Paul Haahr 2002-04-04 10:04 ` Tim Goodwin 2002-04-04 21:42 ` Scott Schwartz -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below -- 2002-04-05 1:38 smarry 2002-04-04 21:54 Byron Rakitzis 2002-04-05 8:35 ` Tim Goodwin 2001-10-23 21:32 Beta release rc-1.6b3 available Carlo Strozzi 2001-10-24 3:34 ` Chris Siebenmann 2001-10-24 8:04 ` Carlo Strozzi [not found] <sroberts@certicom.com> 2001-10-23 15:55 ` Sam Roberts 2001-10-23 21:14 ` Scott Schwartz 2001-10-15 13:56 Tim Goodwin 2001-10-17 14:13 ` Buggs 2001-10-17 14:34 ` Tim Goodwin 2001-10-17 21:13 ` Buggs 2001-10-23 7:55 ` Carlo Strozzi 2001-10-23 12:44 ` Tim Goodwin 2001-10-23 15:47 ` Markus Friedl 2001-10-23 21:09 ` Carlo Strozzi [not found] <tell@cs.unc.edu> 2000-05-08 23:25 ` building rc on QNX4 Stephen Tell 2000-05-10 0:37 ` builtins Scott Schwartz 2000-05-12 7:22 ` builtins Carlo Strozzi 2000-05-04 15:18 building rc on QNX4 Carlo Strozzi 2000-05-08 8:29 ` Tim Goodwin [not found] ` <tjg@star.le.ac.uk> 2000-05-08 11:50 ` David Luyer 2000-05-08 13:28 ` Carlo Strozzi 2000-04-27 17:39 Carlo Strozzi 2000-05-02 14:41 ` Tim Goodwin 2000-04-27 16:56 Scott Schwartz 2000-04-27 20:41 ` Sam Roberts 2000-04-28 7:28 ` vrl (was: Re: building rc on QNX4) Gert-Jan Vons 2000-04-28 18:38 ` Sam Roberts 2000-05-02 8:16 ` Gert-Jan Vons 2000-04-28 19:03 ` rc not session leader? Sam Roberts 2000-04-26 15:02 building rc on QNX4 Sam Roberts 1997-09-18 23:26 are there any patches which add ~ expansion to rc Chris Siebenmann [not found] ` <cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu> 1992-06-04 10:05 ` $pid malte 1992-11-04 12:45 ` set subtract malte 1992-11-06 12:03 ` rc and signal handlers malte 1997-09-19 17:21 ` are there any patches which add ~ expansion to rc Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2001-10-24 3:25 ` Beta release rc-1.6b3 available Chris Siebenmann 2001-10-24 3:41 ` Scott Schwartz 1997-09-17 15:56 are there any patches which add ~ expansion to rc Joseph Skinner 1997-09-17 21:56 ` Scott Schwartz 1997-09-17 22:08 ` Mark K. Gardner
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