[clue-tech] BASH 4.0 out

[Jed S. Baer]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:13:01 -0700 (MST)
Bruce Ediger wrote:

> >The shell has been changed to be more rigorous about parsing commands
> >inside command substitutions, fixing one piece of POSIX non-compliance.
> 
> Probably whoever had the problem with illogical variable substitution
> has already moved on, but perhaps the above fix explains *why* that was
> so illogical - it was nearly a bug.

Well, yeah, using eval, and then going even further into the realm of
maintainable code, I wrapped the whole thing up in shell function even.
Go me! (Well, I should've done that to start with -- at least the shell
function part.)

jed