Hi,
On Nov/29/2009, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> Right now in Grub2 a user could do:
> name=john
> set name=john
>
> both are valid.
>
> (first one has a bug but very easy to fix, even thought I would maybe
> refactor this code to implement in other way)
>
> Question that arised in IRC: should be support the first one or not? Two
> interfaces for the same thing?
my opinion: doesn't matter (a lot)
And because "doesn't matter": we can only accept "set name=john".
So we avoid bugs like it happened now, more simple and users wondering
"if there are two ways means that set is doing something that it's not
happening in name=foo, maybe setting a reference and not copying the
string*? maybe exporting**?".
*: happens in VBA
**: someone could think that if we accept without and with set it's
exporting like export name=foo in Bash
--
Carles Pina i Estany
http://pinux.info
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