Welcome back

[Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>]

Paul,

Welcome back into the (sur)real world!  We have missed you.

The new release you are talking about -- will that be the 0.9x that
you talked about way back when, or are you thinking about going all
the way to 1.0?

One of several reasons I am asking is that I would like to restart an
old discussion about whether or not a non-login es should read a
config file upon startup.  But I would like to take the time to think
about the issues and phrase my suggestions in a reasonably thoughtful
manner, and I am not sure I have the time to do that right now.
However I *do* want the discussion to happen before 1.0.  After that,
it is probably too late to change things.

(On a side note, I would have preferred to change the notation <={...}
into ${...} because <={...} is hard to type, and the ${...} syntax is
not used for anything else.  It is also more similar to what you find
in other shells, like $(...) in bash (yes, I know that is really es's
`{...}).  But I understand that this was much discussed on the list
before I joined, so I am probably flogging a very dead horse here).

- Harald