2016-02-05 14:20 GMT+01:00 Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>: > Hi Elia, > > On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Elia Pinto wrote: > >> From the git coding guideline : "We prefer $( ... ) for command >> substitution; unlike ``, it properly nests. It should have been the way >> Bourne spelled it from day one, but unfortunately isn't." > > There was only one time in my life as a developer when I had to change a > $(...) to a `...` construct. I do not really remember all the details, but > I think it was on MacOSX, and it was inside a case ... esac and the > closing parentheses was mistaken for a case arm (the $(...) construct > might have been multi-line, is the only thing that would make sense in my > mind. > > Did you hear of similar problems?
I not personally. The autoconf manual does not seem to me (for that i can remember) to mention this possible incompatibility, for example. Best > > Ciao, > Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
