Re: standards/42828: Almquist shell always evaluates the contents of ${ENV} even if non-interactive

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:40:03PM +0000, Richard Hansen wrote:
>  
>  Plus it would mean arrays.  :)  Lack of arrays is my biggest gripe with 
>  the POSIX shell spec ("set -e" ambiguity is a close second).  However, 
>  adding array support would be a *huge* change.  It'd be a challenge to 
>  get community buy-in.

Especially since, to a large extent, they can be simulated using eval.

        David

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