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Re: [Help-bash] eval and LINENO
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] eval and LINENO |
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Wed, 19 Dec 2018 14:56:20 -0500 |
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On 12/18/18 5:44 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-03/msg00128.html
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> Nevertheless, this behavior is still surprising. It sounds like Bash
> is like this because of a limitation in the underlying bision. One
> could say it is a "features". But I'd still consider it as a bug
> (probably not easy to fix).
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> Is this the case there is absolutely no way to change behavior to make
> it more intuitive?
Not without more overhead than I consider acceptable.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU address@hidden http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/