David Holland <dholland-t...@netbsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 07:43:20PM +0100, Rocky Hotas wrote: > > # food > > $food=YES > > : > > > > Is there any reason for that? What do you think? > > My guess: someone was thinking in perl by accident and nobody's > noticed it since, so it hasn't been fixed.
More likely a copy paste from things like
eval _value=\$${1}
-uwe
