From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:29:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Shell script cleanups/style changes?
Message-ID: <7vodhptyk3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vsl71tyyq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

You might find this thread amusing.

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/7116/focus=7136

Historically, I have even avoided accepting ${var#word}, ${var%word},
and arithmetic expansions.

I would still reject shell arrays.