Re: Are there any plans for more readable, modern syntaxes for If statements?

2020-03-26 Thread George
On Thu, 2020-03-26 at 19:05 +0200, Vaidas BoQsc wrote: > I keep on wondering why these shells can't come up with something better > than improving previous shell syntax by little by only providing poor > better alternatives. > I somehow think there is a need to rethink shells from scratch to make

Re: process substitution bug or difference from bash 4.4

2020-03-26 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/25/20 10:35 AM, Valentin Lab wrote: > Hi, > > I have encountered an issue when running some bash code from 4.4 on a bash > 5 ... I've managed to pinpoint the exact issue on my end. Thanks for the report. This is a bug in bash-5.0, and I will have a fix in the next devel branch push. Chet

Re: Are there any plans for more readable, modern syntaxes for If statements?

2020-03-26 Thread Daniel Colascione
> I keep on wondering why these shells can't come up with something better > than improving previous shell syntax by little by only providing poor > better alternatives. > I somehow think there is a need to rethink shells from scratch to make > them > less mentally demanding and readable in the

Re: Are there any plans for more readable, modern syntaxes for If statements?

2020-03-26 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 19:05:58 +0200, Vaidas BoQsc wrote: > I keep on wondering why these shells can't come up with something better > than improving previous shell syntax by little by only providing poor > better alternatives. > I somehow think there is a need to rethink shells from scratch to make

Re: Are there any plans for more readable, modern syntaxes for If statements?

2020-03-26 Thread Vaidas BoQsc
I keep on wondering why these shells can't come up with something better than improving previous shell syntax by little by only providing poor better alternatives. I somehow think there is a need to rethink shells from scratch to make them less mentally demanding and readable in the command prompt