merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

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>>>>>> "Nikolai" == Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> writes:
>
> Nikolai> We do require a POSIX-compliant version of sh already, right?
>
> OK, sorry for raising the flag.  I just know that writing portable shell
> is far trickier than writing portable Perl, so I get overly cautious
> on anything that wasn't in Unix V7.

You seem to be as old fashioned as I am (I grew up with V7
shell).  People complained often enough how antiquated my shell
script (hence many but not all git Porcelain-ish) style is.

I have tried very hard to reject "Hey, it's in POSIX -- we'll
use it and screw platforms that are not exactly POSIX".  I only
use POSIX as a yardstick to decide what to stay away from, as in
"Let's not use ${parameter//pattern/string} -- it is not _even_
in POSIX".

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