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From: Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: $_ and compatibility
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:58:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040311175856.GA5768@lorien.emufarm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1040311171735.ZM20352@candle.brasslantern.com>

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 05:17:35PM +0000, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> I'm usually a stickler for backwards compatibility, but does anyone
> think anything would break if the changing of $_ were delayed until
> after shell functions have been called, so that it would remain the
> last word of the _previous_ command?

Somewhere, someone would break.  That's almost a given.

But with a proper notice, maybe it would be okay?  I think it would make
sense to keep a list of (non-bug) incompatibilities somewhere in the
distribution so that people would have a definitive place to find out
why their stuff isn't working anymore.

But it still makes it harder to incorporate zsh in a distribution that
strives for backwards compatibility.  :(

Danek


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-11 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-11  8:59 alias vl="vi !$" zzapper
2004-03-11  9:10 ` James Devenish
2004-03-11 12:26   ` zzapper
2004-03-11 12:33     ` Peter Stephenson
2004-03-11 12:40       ` zzapper
2004-03-11 12:55         ` Thomas Köhler
2004-03-11 13:23 ` zzapper
2004-03-11 17:17   ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-11 17:58     ` Danek Duvall [this message]
2004-03-11 19:05     ` Wayne Davison
2004-03-11 20:13       ` zzapper
2004-03-11 23:45         ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-03-14 16:27     ` Peter Stephenson

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