On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Ben Hoskings <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/12/2009, at 10:18 AM, Martin Stannard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey Ben,
>>
>> Nice work, I saw a couple of the issues you mentioned on the mailing
>> list and the lack of response.
>>
>> The problem with non-existent directories causing the set function to
>> fail silently would be good to fix - will fork and have a look at it.
>> I took me a while to figure out why my config wasn't working...
>
> Awesome, I've been meaning to have a look at that one.
>
> I found when i was patching things that many functions are way too
> long and strangely named, and need refactoring.
>
> But I think it's decent code overall, i.e. I think all it needs is
> some broad refactoring, as opposed to rewriting.

For my last holiday project I started looking deeply into shells.

I read the fish code and was a bit disappointed by how poor it seemed.

I went on to read the code of and get ideas from bash, zsh, ksh and dash.

For all the shortcomings and youth of fish, mostly they're worse (I
opine). I suspect much of this comes from *baggage*.

> Let us know what you find :)
>
> Cheers
> Ben
>
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