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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: FPATH/autoload still strange in -dev-21
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:56:42 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E12dEeA-0000e6-00@crucigera.fysh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1000406095141.ZM15654@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Apr 6, 2000 09:51:41 am"

Bart Schaefer wrote:
>} Make `2>& <non-number>' be silently treated like `2> <non-number>'?
>
>I'd vote for that anyway.

I wouldn't.  At the moment it's perfectly clear: &> does two redirections.
You're talking about adding an exception, which really *will* confuse
people.  The expected behaviour of "2>& foo" is to put two copies of
stderr into the file; this is a pretty innocuous failure mode if anyone
does do it by accident, and the cause will be pretty obvious.

-zefram


  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-06 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-04-06  8:18 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-04-06  9:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-04-06 15:56   ` Zefram [this message]
2000-04-06 16:42     ` Bart Schaefer
2000-04-06 17:21       ` Zefram
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-04-06 10:49 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-04-05  8:03 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-04-05  5:09 Bart Schaefer

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