On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Let's avoid it. This has the advantage that the code is now actually
>> understandable (at least to me), while before it looked like voodoo.
>
> I am somewhat hesitant to accept a patch to shell scripts on the basis
> that the patch author does not understand the existing constructs that
> are standard parts of shell idioms.
I have been writing shell scripts for years[1], and I have *never* had
an encounter with ':'. vim's sh syntax doesn't seem to be prepared for
it, and zsh's sh emulation has problems only when ':' is involved, so
I still think ':' is quite obscure.
Plus, I haven't seen ${foo:=bar} that often.
In any case, there's no need for ad hominem arguments; there is a
problem when using zsh, that's a fact.
[1] https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/felipec/positions/total
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Felipe Contreras
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