From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-relay-1.mv.us.adobe.com ([130.248.1.1]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2712>; Mon, 18 Jan 1993 02:23:58 -0500 Received: by mail-relay-1.mv.us.adobe.com; id AA16972; Sun, 17 Jan 93 23:23:51 -0800 Received: by utopia.mv.us.adobe.com (NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail 5.52)/NX3.0S) id AA13510; Sun, 17 Jan 93 23:23:10 PST Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 02:23:10 -0500 From: Paul Haahr Message-Id: <9301180723.AA13510@utopia.mv.us.adobe.com> To: Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au Subject: Re: varaiable expansion and here documents Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu the behavior of Byron's rc agrees with Tom Duff's paper, which refers to variable names but not expressions. these rules are simple. let's not confuse matters by allowing arbitrary expression syntax to heredocs. my $.02.