Re: 4.4 change in behavior from 4.3: how to catch unset when using ${#length}

2016-10-29 Thread L. A. Walsh
Chet Ramey wrote: On 10/29/16 2:04 AM, L. A. Walsh wrote: You can claim a feature is a certain way because posix requires it when you are operating in posix-only mode. Not actually true. I can claim bash implements a particular feature the way bash implements it. --- True, but

Re: 4.4 change in behavior from 4.3: how to catch unset when using ${#length}

2016-10-29 Thread Chet Ramey
On 10/29/16 2:04 AM, L. A. Walsh wrote: > > > Chet Ramey wrote: >> Come on, don't be willfully obtuse. You know better than this. Posix mode >> doesn't mean "turning it off does everything the way Linda wants." >> > No, but claiming posix as a backing for features running that are > not runnin