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Subject: Re: FPATH/autoload still strange in -dev-21
In-Reply-To: <1000406095141.ZM15654@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer
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To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:56:42 +0100 (BST)
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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>

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