From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
Cc: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>, zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: better configure-time handling of program-transform
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 10:12:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991203101206.C25311@dman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E11topV-0004qO-00@crucigera.fysh.org>; from zefram@fysh.org on Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 09:16:41AM +0000
> What's this about? What does it achieve that
>
> eval "u_ptn=${program_transform_name}"
>
> doesn't? Is the extra layer of expansion really necessary anyway?
Well, when $program_transform_name is s,$$,blah,
that would set u_ptn to something like "s,99999,blah,"
whereas it should be "s,$,blah,".
prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-12-03 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-02 22:13 Clint Adams
1999-12-03 9:16 ` Zefram
1999-12-03 15:12 ` Clint Adams [this message]
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