From: Vinnie Shelton <shelton@icd.teradyne.com>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Incompatibility in zsh-3.0-pre3 ?
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:12:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199607151512.LAA01837@spacely.icd.teradyne.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pws's message of Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:42:54 +0200. <199607150842.KAA05023@hydra.ifh.de>
pws@ifh.de said:
> This is due to the change that {, }, and [[ are treated as `reserved
> words' --- which basically means they have to appear separately on
> the command line. This is for compatibility (repeat mantra 57 times
> :-/).
I just want to go on record as stating that I think this is really NOT a good
thing. IMO, *way* too many scripts and functions are going to break. Bart's
example is a good one:
: grind Mon 15 11:04; echo $ZSH_VERSION
3.0-pre2
: grind Mon 15 11:04; [[-z $foo]] && echo foo is not set
foo is not set
: grind Mon 15 11:05; echo $ZSH_VERSION
3.0-pre3
: grind Mon 15 11:05; [[-z $foo]] && echo foo is not set
zsh: bad pattern: [[-z
Big picture questions: How can we have major changes like this shortly before
a release? What's the timeframe for the 3.0 release? When do we stop making
incompatible changes?
--vin
next parent reply other threads:[~1996-07-15 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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1996-07-15 15:12 ` Vinnie Shelton [this message]
1996-07-19 0:31 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-07-19 14:12 ` Zefram
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