> call me crazy but I like orthogonality, and logically named
> commands.
You like two completely different ways of doing assignments?
First, export foo=bar is just convenient shorthand for
foo=bar
export foo
There is only one way to do assignment statements in sh: var=value.
All variable assignments are local, with the single exception of
variable assignments preceding a command. `export' is the only way
to make a variable part of the environment.
sh-style shells are much more consistent.
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