> This case was approved during this afternoon's PSARC meeting. The
> proposal.final file in the case's materials directory has been added
> to reflect changes made during the discussions surrounding this case.
No fair! I had no connection!
Actually, I'm fine with this. I'd figured out that my preference for
no default was certainly in the minority and Don, just a few messages
ago said:
No. He would not. There is a difference between having a configuration
file which can be adjusted by your system administrator to set a default
editing mode (OK according to the standard), and having ksh93 always set
a default editing mode even if no configuration files are present on the
system (not allowed by the standard). The standard, however, only talks
about what happens when the shell is named "sh"; the standard says
nothing about a shell named "ksh93". This case is about "ksh93"; not
"sh".
I hadn't caught the significance of the newance about how the 'default'
was set. (And yes, I know about what names are defined by the standard.
My mail used other names because I'm pretty sure we will progress incrementally
along that sequence of names.)
Anyway, I'm bummed because I was about to graciously remove my objection
and now I'm denied that chance... 8^)
- jek3
