Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:20:00 +0100:
> I think there's a good case for system and world without the set > specifier working the way they always have. I for one am very aware if I > type in @world (ie not system, useful for -e) vs world. I don't see any > benefit to the user in jettisoning the existing metaphor. What do others > think? That's an interesting idea. I don't personally care either way, as long as @world continues to /not/ include system/@system, but having world (without the @) continue to include system /would/ be useful for backward compatibility. I think it'd be much better in terms of ease of educating the vast majority of stable users, as the @ is new anyway, so it can have new behaviour without a problem, but having new behaviour for world does present a significant re-education/retraining issue. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
