Re: reversal of brace vs process expansion needs compatibility option

2010-03-06 Thread tbagg
Chet Ramey wrote: > On 3/4/10 3:43 AM, Ted Bagg wrote: > > Dear Bash maintainers, this very useful construct worked in 3.2: > > > > diff <(sort {a,b}.lst) > > > > but fails in 4.0, breaking scripts for many, no doubt. Such a > > substantive change (much more harm than good, in my opinion) oug

Re: reversal of brace vs process expansion needs compatibility option

2010-03-04 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/4/10 3:43 AM, Ted Bagg wrote: > Dear Bash maintainers, this very useful construct worked in 3.2: > > diff <(sort {a,b}.lst) > > but fails in 4.0, breaking scripts for many, no doubt. Such a > substantive change (much more harm than good, in my opinion) ought > always to come with an option