Re: RFE: request for grouping mechanism to work in double brackets where otherewise illegal

2010-09-22 Thread Linda Walsh
Greg Wooledge wrote: I prefer plan C: leave it alone. It's working fine. Your preference could be used as an excuse to stop all future growth in primitive interfaces, however 'fine' is in the eye of the beholder. If everything was fine with the shell, we'd all be using borne she

Re: RFE: request for grouping mechanism to work in double brackets where otherewise illegal

2010-09-22 Thread Dennis Williamson
OK, my magic error corrector chose this as its output: bash -c 'cd foobar' && ci filename Is that what you were hoping for? There's a big difference between a compiler and an interpreter. The former can afford to take the time to do some of the kinds of things that you describe. Those same thin

Re: RFE: request for grouping mechanism to work in double brackets where otherewise illegal

2010-09-22 Thread Pierre Gaston
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > > > So far, no one has come up with any good reasons why this would be a > problem, or how it would create any compatibility problems.  All I've > seen is an attitude of 'well, I don't wanna!  It's my toy and I didn't > think of the idea, and