On Tuesday 28 of August 2012 11:26:19 erik quanstrom wrote: > > And rc is not perfect. I've always felt like the 'if not' stuff was a > > kludge. > no, it's certainly not. (i wouldn't call if not a kludge—just ugly. the > haahr/rakitzis es' if makes more sense, even if it's wierder.) > > but the real question with rc is, what would you fix?
switch/case would make helluva difference over nested if/if not, if defaulted to fall-through. variable scoping (better than subshel) would help writing larger scripts, but that's not necessarily an improvement ;-) something similar to LISP's `let' special form, for dynamic binding. -- dexen deVries 1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.
