[indiana-discuss] scope

[Chris Pickett]

On 8/6/07, Josh Hurst <joshhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/6/07, I. Szczesniak <iszczesniak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/6/07, Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> wrote:
> > > Roland's current work is to integrate ksh93 as ksh93.  He also has a
> > > build flag to build it as 'ksh'.
> >
> > I hope Indiana is going to set this build flag to 'ksh' by default.
>
> +1

+1

I think we have a bigger problem than /bin/ksh: Does Indiana or
Opensolaris want to address the problem that Opensolaris still uses
the original bourne shell as /bin/sh? Most modern Unices use either
bash or ksh as /bin/sh, creating porting problems for Opensolaris
developers because basics like functions with separate scope, arrays
or $() aren't working in scripts and makefiles. This really needs to
be a top priority.

Chris
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