Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:16:48 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FICL and setting BTX variables Message-ID: <51744.915970608@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:20:50 %2B0900." <36982AA2.3F0FBE1B@newsguy.com>
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> 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
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