if you want to delay the expansion of an env var until fn invocation,,use eval.
% fn foo {eval echo $$bar}
On 8/14/08, roger peppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> looks like a bug to me; after all:
>
> % bar=baz {echo $bar}
> baz
> %
>
> i'm somewhat surprised this hasn't been fixed years ago.
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Micah Stetson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Is this a bug?
>>
>> % fn foo { echo $bar }
>> % bar=baz foo
>>
>> %
>>
>> I would expect to see baz instead of a blank line.
>>
>> Micah
