Valery Ushakov <u...@stderr.spb.ru> wrote:
> 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}
Unrelated, but rc.subr has quite a few instances of code like
eval $somecmd
where most likely plain
$somecmd
is intended. I don't think another round of expansions inside the
value of somecmd is what is expected here (it seems to be a common
misconception that the command (the first word) is somehow magic).
-uwe
