On 2/28/12 5:34 PM, John Kearney wrote: > the outermost quotes only effect how the final value is handled. > same as ยง()
${} doesn't work like $(), and it never has. That's one consequence of backwards compatibility -- the Bourne shell didn't have $(). > having special behaviour model for that string makes it imposible to > work with really. > > this should actually make it easier for the parser. It doesn't actually change anything for the parser. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/