On 1/11/19 8:15 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 2019-01-10 19:01:08 -0500, Chet Ramey:
>> On 1/10/19 5:29 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
>>
>>> In any case, by no longer allowing pipelines, redirections,
>>> multiple commands, keywords, comments in alias values, empty or
>>> blank aliases, that proposed change breaks many applications,
>>> especially scripts.
>>
>> I'm not sure making those cases unspecified "breaks many applications."
>> Shells, even posix shells in posix mode, are free to accept any or
>> all of the above, just as they do today.
> [...]
>
> I re-used kre's "break" here which I believe he meant as: would
> make applications no longer conformant (IOW, applications would
> mean to be modified to be confomant again, or may not be
> portable to newer shells written based on the new text of the
> standard).
Maybe. However, until those hypothetical future shells appear, the
applications are no less portable than they are today. They will
run under the same shells they run under now.
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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
