On 2/15/19 9:26 AM, Vlad Vladov wrote: > Hi, > I think bash is great and more people should use it. However, it has a bit > more picky syntax than many other modern languages and shell scripts. For > example assigning a var requires having no spaces between = and var and > assignment. I think this kind of thing can be fixed while still maintaining > backwards compatibility since we would only need to accept space (0 or > more) between tokens. If someone needs to write a script for older systems > they can just follow a stricter syntax, while others can use the benefits > of more lenient syntax. What are your thoughts?
Bad idea. Existing scripts can do: echo = hi and your proposal would change the semantics of that line from outputting the string "= hi" to instead assigning to the variable named $echo. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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