sensible local support?

2010-11-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Hi Herbert, Would you be open to the idea of making dash's local work more like the scope modifier that its name implies than like a separate command in which assignments have different semantics? To be clear, local is not standardized, so the change I'm advocating would not be a bug fix ;-)

Re: sensible local support?

2010-11-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jim Meyering wrote: Would you be open to the idea of making dash's local work more like the scope modifier that its name implies than like a separate command in which assignments have different semantics? To be clear, local is not standardized, so the change I'm advocating would not be a

Re: [Partial patch] IFS and read builtin

2010-11-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Herbert et al, Herbert Xu wrote: commit f42e443bb511ed3224f09b4fcf0772438ebdbbfa Author: Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.apana.org.au Date: Wed Sep 8 20:07:26 2010 +0800 [EXPAND] Fix ifsfirst/ifslastp leak Another puzzle bisecting to f42e443bb. This one comes from the grub-mkconfig