On Dec 10, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Martin Ebourne wrote:
I've scripted quite a lot in zsh (and ksh, sh, bash) and I agree with
the zsh guys on that one. Just sometimes everyone else really is
wrong.
It doesn't matter if they are or not.
Unless you have arrays in the shell, which they didn't when this
behavior was devices in /bin/sh, there's really no alternative, so
the right behavior was never an option. And if you're writing an
interpreter for a scripting language you need to implement the
language that you're writing an interpreter for.
I mean, if you're going to break compatibility completely, you might
as well fix the rest of the screwups at the same time.
Starting with "do..done" versus "if..fi" and working up.
