Re: recursive functions in bash

2007-12-10 Thread Chet Ramey
davedoom wrote: I am trying to learn to write recursive functions in bash. As one of my first attempts i wrote this program to emulate the system provided tac command: after playing with it for a good bit, it no longer produces this error message: malloc: ../bash/subst.c:4135: assertion

RFE? | ?

2007-12-10 Thread Linda Walsh
I was wondering about a possible RFE and whether or not it is inadvisable or not. I'd be surprised if no one had thought of it -- so maybe there is a problem in doing it. Just like: word#(preferred syntax) and word are semantically equivalent to word 21 Has it been thought

Re: Meta question w/rt list

2007-12-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Linda Walsh wrote: Would it be a bad thing to set mail-list software to automatically default to the list as the 'default' response, and the user would have to address an email, manually, to not respond to the list? If there were a good mail header to use then it would be a good thing. But