On 04/23/2016 01:53 PM, Kamil Cholewiński wrote:
Make that two, quoting the man page:
The list flattening operator, $^foo, is spelt $"foo in those versions
of the Bell Labs rc which have it.
No, rakitzis's rc accepts both syntaxes. That's why I didn't submit an
issue for it.
All other incompatibilities seem to be a superset of AT&T's rc's
functionality, or can be avoided.
And since both of them are named "rc", and are usually present in vastly
different locations across different platforms, it's practically
impossible to detect or specify using one vs another in a simple and
portable way.
I don't understand why... The author went as far as to document all of
these incompatibilities, why not just fix them?
We could have had a better shell. Such a shame.
If enough people tell rakitzis that compatibility with Plan 9 rc would
be great, maybe (s)he will change his/her mind? It's just one change!
And then scripts using the common subset would run fine with either shell.
Or someone could fork rakitzis's rc and resolve issue #19 [1].
Or someone could fork Plan 9 rc and add history.
[1] https://github.com/rakitzis/rc/issues/19
