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Re: Incompatibility in zsh-3.0-pre3 ?

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From: Zefram <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx (Zoltan Hidvegi)
Subject: Re: Incompatibility in zsh-3.0-pre3 ?
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:12:43 +0100 (BST)
Cc: acs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199607190031.CAA02517@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Jul 19, 96 02:31:52 am

>> I just want to go on record as stating that I think this is really NOT a good
>> thing.  IMO, *way* too many scripts and functions are going to break.  Bart's
>
>Seeing the great opposition I'll probably reverse this change in the next
>release (these will remain reserved words but will be treated more
>specially).

Actually, I think the new behaviour is preferable, though when I first
heard about it I was of the same opinion as the writer you quote
above.  It's really very easy to correct those scripts that break
(though that is rather a lot of them).

-zefram

References:
- Re: Incompatibility in zsh-3.0-pre3 ?
  - From: Zoltan Hidvegi

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