Roland Mainz writes: > 2. The issue is caused by the switch from Bourne shell to ksh, not by > ksh93 itself. ksh88 already had the "stop" alias:
Correct. That's exactly the accident. > Umpf... IMO "safe" is what's described in the POSIX shell standard and > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/shell/shellstyle/ (that's why I > wrote that document...). If it's only C/C++/Java that are the sources of new keywords (outside of the existing shell standards), then I guess I can agree that it's now predictable. It was the importation of keywords from some other source that was the problem I was referring to: it puts an unconstrained burden on the script writer if keywords can be borrowed in the future from just arbitrary sources. (I guess I'm still a little fuzzy on the issue, as "C/C++/Java" aren't precise standards references, but I'll just presume that readers know what you mean here.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
