* Clint Adams wrote on Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:18:11PM CET: > > posh shares the following POSIX compliance bug with pdksh, quoting: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Shellology.html#index-g_t_0040samp_007bpdksh_007d-1173 > > Can you explain why this is incorrect
I think this message explains it fairly well: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-07/msg00010.html > or why `` should differ from $() in this respect? As to why POSIX was written this way, I can only guess: to accommodate existing usage maybe? $() is better this way for users: everything that is a valid shell script can be stuffed between $( and ). OTOH, that has led to long-lived bugs (wrt. mixing $() and 'case' constructs...) Cheers, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
