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Re: declare a="$b" if $a previously set as array


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: declare a="$b" if $a previously set as array
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:16:25 -0500
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On 12/8/14 4:31 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:

> If you want delayed evaluation, use 'eval', that's what it's for. Your use 
> case
> is a lame excuse for a "feature" that's clearly more evil than useful.

I stopped reading right here.  In the end, this is a minor argument about a
relatively obscure technology issue.  Couching it in moral or ethical
terms cheapens the argument and is a pretty good indicator that the writer
lacks perspective.  Take this as preachy if you like, but there are things
out there that really deserve to be called evil, and this isn't one of them.

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