Ted Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > Or, pick something else, like your favorit cartoon expletive > | > #*?&[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > | If (and only if) a new syntax/mechanism have to be defined, could > | be a good idea to explicitly separate in the syntax itself > | the standard body from the version from the command/interpreted executed ? > > That is what I had in mind, i.e., to separate the issue of how > to get the standard POSIX shell from the more general issue of > how to support various other interpreters (Perl, etc.). The latter > interpreters are pretty well outside the scope of POSIX.
Agree; actually i typed "from the version" instead of "and the version"; and what i meant is that the standard syntax should be generic with respect to standard body, so POSIX should not be a keyword, but an argument, and constraint on the version should be included (this make me think to the feature provided by package systems like rpm ... ). Maurizio -- Maurizio De Cecco MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
