Hi Bryan, I've opened issue https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/740 to track simplifying the language used.
Thanks for taking the time to report this. _fish On May 10, 2013, at 3:23 AM, Bryan Kilgallin <br...@netspeed.com.au> wrote: > Take the following quote as an example. I parsed it through a > readability checker. > http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp > That gave a Gunning Fog Index of 14, and a Flesch Reading Ease of 38. > The following URL explains that this excerpt looks like a highbrow > newspaper. Authors should try to make it more easily understood. > > Variable expansion is the only type of expansion performed on double > quoted strings. There is, however, an important difference in how > variables are expanded when quoted and when unquoted. An unquoted > variable expansion will result in a variable number of arguments. For > example, if the variable $foo has zero elements or is undefined, the > argument $foo will expand to zero elements. If the variable $foo is an > array of five elements, the argument $foo will expand to five elements. > When quoted, like "$foo", a variable expansion will always result in > exactly one argument. Undefined variables will expand to the empty > string, and array variables will be concatenated using the space character. > > http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/user_doc/html/index.html#expand > -- > www.netspeed.com.au/bryan/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and > their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed > leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. > Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may > _______________________________________________ > Fish-users mailing list > Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
