> so I'm writing to get your opinions. maybe there are thing that people > implement themselves but want included in the shell itself? or just > something they want implemented?
What I most often miss in shell programming is a proper type system. Bourne basically only has strings. Rc improves matters slightly with lists of strings. It's still not enough for me. I make a lot of mistakes in shell programming and strict type checking would catch most of them. I'm not sure I would use a strictly typed shell exclusively, but I would certainly like to have it available. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282
