Re: Yow!

[pete@minster.york.ac.uk]

> i'm not sure what you mean by non-general, but i do agree that the
> primitive $&cd probably shouldn't do path-searching.  i still think
> it should be in the ``default'' shell configuration, but the call
> to %cdpathsearch should probably be from a function defined in
> initial.es rather than the primitive.  comments, anyone?

Primitives should have a fairly close mapping to system calls; functions
should build higher-level features. $&cd semantics should map closely onto 
those of chdir.  

pete

(is it just me, or was 0.83 generally harder to build on Sparcs than 0.82?)
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