From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 10 04:17:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA14429 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:17:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA14424 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:17:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA51747; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:16:48 -0800 (PST) To: "Daniel C. Sobral" cc: Duncan Barclay , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FICL and setting BTX variables In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:20:50 +0900." <36982AA2.3F0FBE1B@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:16:48 -0800 Message-ID: <51744.915970608@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is being worked on. Well, it would be being worked on if I had > got a single second opinion on how to proceed, but... Really? You're waiting for this? I thought we'd already just agreed on whatever the last round of discussions produced and were waiting to move on. :-) > * Right now, all builtins return 1 if no error happened, 0 > otherwise (btw, Jordan, ANS specifies all bits 1 as the "true" value > :). It is my intention to change this behavior. In fact, I have > already submitted the patches. If I have it my way, errors will use > THROW instead. I can live with all that - we're not tied to the builtin return values being anything specific, they were chosen arbitrarily. > * Right now, you can't set a variable to the name of another > variable. For instance, the default value of prompt is "${currdev}". Looks like Mike just fixed that. > * Right now (yeah, I'm emphasizing it :), EVALUATE doesn't work > according to specs. It will silently ignore the count passed, and Aye! > say, I hope :-), I intend to fix this too. Alas, I haven't submitted > this patch yet. Anyway, if you want to create strings to be Aye! :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message