From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Cc: hzoli@cs.elte.hu
Subject: Re: sh compatibility again :->
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 23:01:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <960811230122.ZM5212@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> "Re: sh compatibility again :->" (Aug 12, 6:00am)
On Aug 12, 6:00am, Zefram wrote:
} Subject: Re: sh compatibility again :->
}
} >The only way to resolve this would be with yet another option, SH_QUOTES
} >or some such. Worth it? Dunno.
}
} Not worth it. POSIX leaves the behaviour undefined IIRC, and there's
} no advantage in the traditional behaviour.
You're right about POSIX, but since it makes a pretty radical difference
to the parse of a script containing unbalanced backticks, the advantage
to the traditional behavior is to be able to execute traditional scripts.
We can decide that's not very important, but it is something.
BTW: Zoltan: Welcome back. ;-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-08-12 6:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-31 21:11 Announcement draft Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-07-31 22:15 ` Zefram
1996-08-01 6:36 ` Bas V. de Bakker
1996-08-01 8:31 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 9:04 ` Running zsh as sh (Was: Announcement draft) Bas V. de Bakker
1996-08-01 9:10 ` Announcement draft Andrej Borsenkow
1996-08-01 13:49 ` Here docs Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 14:07 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-01 16:27 ` More Configure problems Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 17:40 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 17:55 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-01 21:03 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-01 23:30 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-02 8:32 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-02 10:03 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1996-08-02 13:29 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-02 1:03 ` Zefram
1996-08-01 14:42 ` Announcement draft Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-08 15:13 ` sh compatibility again :-> Andrej Borsenkow
1996-08-12 2:18 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-12 4:36 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-08-12 5:00 ` Zefram
1996-08-12 6:01 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1996-08-12 6:34 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-08-12 6:20 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1996-08-12 15:29 whukriede
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