Re: %assign

[John (Most modern computers would break if you stood on them) Mackin <john@ civil.su.oz.au>]

    to make that work, i think es would need first class environments,
    which are not impossible, but not a 1.0 feature.

_More_ generality!  _More_ extensibity!  More! More! More!!!...

Seriously, this is good, and reminds me of what Scott Schwartz
pointed out back in October of last year:

    Continuations are an invaluable abstraction for implementing language
    features, even if end users never touch them.

Basing the extensibility of the shell on known-solid general
principles at the bottom level is definitely the way to go.

I have some thoughts on why es isn't like zsh (grin - cf. Paul's
message of yesterday) but will have to reserve those for the moment...
I don't suppose anyone on this list knows anything about CMU TCP/IP
on VMS? :) :) If so, mail me!

OK,
John.