> From: Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> > > The two words don't seem me to be used interchangeably in the Bash > > manual page. "evaluate" is used only for obtaining the value of > > "arithmetic evaluations" and "conditional expressions", whereas > > "expand" is used for operations that are strictly textual > > replacements. > > I cribbed the language pretty closely from the Posix standard, which > uses `evaluates' in this fashion.
It's your call, of course. But being trained as a mathematician, I pay attention to what the specific meanings of words are. And the Bash manual page uses "expand" and "evaluate" in the ways I've described in almost all places. If you don't care to keep the meanings of the two words distinct, feel free. Dale
