From: Sam Vilain Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:53:41 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Generational repacking Message-ID: <46673AF5.1070901@vilain.net> In-Reply-To: <7vlkewya4s.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano wrote: > Sam Vilain writes: > >> + c_gen=`eval "echo \\\$c_gen_$i"` >> + packs=`eval "echo \\\$gen_$i"` >> > > I used to write something like these myself when I was young > ;-), but it is enough to write: > > eval 'c_gen=$c_gen_'$i > eval "packs=\$gen_$i" > Would've re-written it in Perl ages ago :P Sam.