Hi, I was about to submit another bug report about that (the fact that a=x b=$a; echo $b doesn't output x) when I saw there was one already.
I was surprised to see: Tags: wontfix; I read through the lengthy discussion, but it doesn't explain why it's tagged as wontfix. Both common sense and SUSv3 state clearly that it is a bug. In the Bourne shell, assignments were performed right to left (you had to do "b=$a a=x"). And I seem to recall reading (either in the standard itself or in some mailing list about it), that POSIX had made it clear that it should be performed left to right to avoid such unintuitive oddities. Anyway, it's true that at least FreeBSD sh has the same problem, so one should avoid such a syntax anyway for the time being. -- Stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
