Re: Convention in the output of service rcvar

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valery Ushakov)]

David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 07:43:20PM +0100, Rocky Hotas wrote:
>  > # food
>  > $food=YES
>  >    :
>  > 
>  > Is there any reason for that? What do you think?
> 
> My guess: someone was thinking in perl by accident and nobody's
> noticed it since, so it hasn't been fixed.

More likely a copy paste from things like

    eval _value=\$${1}

-uwe