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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 10:12:06 -0500
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
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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,".