Robert Schiele <rschiele@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:24:38AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> The situation is that we currently don't avoid the former. Robert >> said that he had prepared a patch that would do so. >> >> It would make sense to either encourage him to present his patch > > Well, if you want to see it, just tell me. Do you want to have it with or > without the arithmetic replacements I did as well? >From Junio's answer, I gather that indeed this would seem pointless. $(...) is not going away anytime soon, and I have seen no evidence that there is a shell in widespread use that supports it, but doesn't support ${...#...}. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html