From: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: posix compliance
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:17:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020620191755.GA84784@lizzy.catnook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206201109330.10467-100000@ns1.sodaware.com>
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:13:43AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Assignable positional parameters are an intentional feature. There's no
> way they can cause a problem, because a POSIX conforming shell script must
> not even attempt it. (Even in POSIX the positional parameters can be
> replaced with the `set' builtin, so claiming that they should be read-only
> does not hold water.)
Indeed, his argument that things like these were causing them lots of problems
with zsh point to poorly written scripts in the first place. But of course
he's not going to admit that, least of all in public with the bash maintainer
standing next to him.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-20 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-18 22:58 Clint Adams
2002-06-20 18:05 ` Jos Backus
2002-06-20 18:13 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-06-20 19:17 ` Jos Backus [this message]
2002-06-20 21:31 ` Dan Nelson
2002-06-21 5:19 ` Borsenkow Andrej
2002-06-21 11:35 ` Oliver Kiddle
2002-06-23 17:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-06-20 21:19 Chet Ramey
2002-06-21 4:30 ` Jos Backus
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