Re: reversal of brace vs process expansion needs compatibility option

[tbagg]

Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 3/4/10 3:43 AM, Ted Bagg wrote:
> > Dear Bash maintainers, this very useful construct worked in 3.2:
> > 
> > diff  <(sort {a,b}.lst)
> > 
> > but fails in 4.0, breaking scripts for many, no doubt.  Such a
> > substantive change (much more harm than good, in my opinion) ought
> > always to come with an option to revert to the previous behavior.
>
> You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but I judged the previous
> behavior a bug (helped in no small part by the number of bug reports
> I received about it) and fixed it.  It defied user expectations and
> was not consistent with the treatment of $(...).  When I fix a bug,
> I don't generally add an option to enable the old behavior.
>
> (Yours is the first complaint I've received about the change in the
> year-plus since bash-4.0 was released, by the way.)
>
> Chet
> -- 
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>                ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
Well, I'm adding an option.