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From: Byron Rakitzis <byron>
To: rc
Subject: Re:  Bug or feature?
Message-Id: <91Aug19.093039cdt.22540@archone.tamu.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1991 09:30:29 -0500

> From: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
> To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
> Subject: Bug or feature?
> 
> I was just playing around with rc (1.1gamma) and discovered this (strange?)
> behaviour:
> 
> 1) If I define a function fn like "fn fn { printenv | grep '^fn_' }"
>    the output is always nothing and it is impossible to define a new
>    function, because fn now has a different meaning. Bug or feature?

This is not right: fn alone is a keyword parsed by the parser as a
"delete function" command. When you type

; fn

to rc, you are saying "please delete these functions: (no arguments)". Now,
you are free to delete the above definition with

; fn fn

or even to define a new function

; fn foo { echo hi }
; foo
hi
;

I don't see how it's "impossible to define a new function". Is your rc
behaving that way? If so, it's broken and needs to be fixed..

> 2) Why doesn't this work:
>    fn prompt {  if(~ ($status) 1 2 3){
>                 prompt=('err ' '>> ')
>         } else  prompt=('ok ' '>> ')}
>    I want the prompt to show "err " if the last command returned 1,2 or 3,
>    else "ok ".

This works on my machine. Could you please send me a more detailed bug
report? I'll try to fix anything that's wrong...