Re: Welcome back

[haahr@netcom.com (Paul Haahr)]

> 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?

The next thing to come out will be an incremental release fixing the
major and easy problems discussed on this list over the last year and a
half.

Included in that category is some of the top-level evaluation stuff
related to what you want to do.  We should discuss what startup of the
shell means and how it's done at one point soon.

(Having said that, I should mention that I'll be checking mail only
sporadically for the next week.)

> (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).

I'd rather not see that particular horse flogged right away.

Paul