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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: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 05:04:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020404100445.8968.qmail@happy.star.le.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ZFwtjf51i@dmul.paulhaahr.com>

> Why not just initialize version (provided there's none set in the
> environment?), not export it, and have any assignments turn it into a
> normal variable.  I think that's pretty easy to do.

OK, after a couple of iterations I've now done exactly that.

I've made $prompt act in the same way; I wonder if $ifs should too?
The other variables to which rc gives default values: $path and $pid;
are never exported.

All this will be in another release candidate soon...

Tim.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-04 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ 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
2002-04-03 15:06         ` Paul Haahr
2002-04-04 10:04       ` Tim Goodwin [this message]
2002-04-04 21:42         ` Scott Schwartz
2002-04-04 21:54 Byron Rakitzis
2002-04-05  8:35 ` Tim Goodwin
2002-04-05  1:38 Smarasderagd

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