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

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

The following reply was made to PR standards/42828; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: standards-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, rhansen%bbn.com@localhost
Subject: Re: standards/42828: Almquist shell always evaluates the contents of 
${ENV} even if non-interactive
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 21:21:20 +0000

 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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