varsym question

Christopher Vance vance at aurema.com
Thu Nov 20 14:52:42 PST 2003


On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:30:30AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Why are the varsyms using ${} format instead of the Domain OS $()
:format? Is this deliberate? 
I'm pretty sure Tru64 used ${}.

   Having never used Domain OS the answer is:  Luck.

   Would people rather we use $() ?  It's early enough that we can make the
   change without messing anyone up.
It's not really worth changing, since there are goo arguments both
ways.  (And make uses both.)
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Christopher Vance




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