Re: cd tracking symbolic links

[gsstark@MIT.EDU]

I'm surprised users of es, of all shells, would get confused about this.
If the meaning of .. depends on how you reached the directory then what you
have is dynamic scoping and nothing works right.

Without closures, scripts or programs would break; symlinks to files would work
differently than the original files; basically all hell breaks loose and your
system is much less powerful. Talk to the people dealing with URL semantics
which are broken in pretty much the way you describe.

 
greg