Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have reported bugs against backtick and suggested to change to use the > more readable alternative. The result was surprising. To quote one > message (bug closed reasoning):
> "If your development environment cannot display ` differently than ' , > you need to get a new one." > I'm askinf if it is ok to to reopen such bugs based of better QA > aspects. Possibly by providing patches if the maintainer is busy > elsewhere to handle such a "minor issue" from his perspective. I have to admit that I agree with that response. For one thing, $() has had some odd behavior and odd bugs, or has not been supported, with some old shells. Personally, I prefer to use one and only one shell script coding style that I know is portable rather than adopting new shell features (most longer programs are better written in something other than shell anyway, IMO, for maintainability). For another, `` is more widely recognized I think, and therefore more readable to the average developer, than $(), which looks like another of the many [EMAIL PROTECTED] line-noise shell variable expansion syntaxes supported by some shells. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
