From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from techfac.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE ([129.70.132.100]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2223>; Tue, 21 Sep 1993 10:34:23 -0400 Received: from dahlie.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE by techfac.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE id AA16123; Tue, 21 Sep 1993 16:33:16 +0200 Received: by dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (5.0/tp.29.0890) id AA20494; Tue, 21 Sep 93 16:33:15 +0200 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 10:33:15 -0400 From: malte@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE Message-Id: <9309211433.AA20494@dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: Thoughts on a builtin read [ rsalz@osf.org wrote ]: > This is an inconsistency. I'd very much prefer the usual > "x = `read" > or "x = `` ( $some_ifs_list ) { read }" Please explain how you would write a "read until EOF loop". Don't confuse EOF with blank lines. Well, let me put it this way: I always wanted $status to reflect the exit status of the backquote command, not the assignment. To give another example of my "disgustingly bad taste", this will allow "while( x = `{ ... } ) ..." to work, too. Malte