On 3/7/25 12:23 PM, John Wiersba wrote:
You're discouraging it's use by not documenting it. BTW, according to those links below, apparently zsh documents it (and encourages its use)?
I think "encourages" is a very generous reading of "These are non-standard and are likely not to be obvious even to seasoned shell programmers; they should not be used anywhere that portability of shell code is a concern."
Two questions:
1. Is there a link to some page where you document obsolete/discouraged/
deprecated constructs?
No. There are only a couple, so we achieve the outcome of not having them used in new code by making them difficult to find.
2. Is our conversation being recorded somewhere in the gnu archives, so
that I can link to it in my stackoverflow question? Otherwise, I'll
just clip quotes from it to paste there.
The thread starts here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2025-03/msg00009.html Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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