Re: [PATCH 8/8] one ugly test to verify basic functionality

From: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 5, 2016, 13:38 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+EOSBn_HB8LABaN497zkr6tvCdqoQXhK=ecsLMx2c5CaJRg1A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602051417490.2964@virtualbox>

2016-02-05 14:20 GMT+01:00 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:

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> Hi Elia,
>
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Elia Pinto wrote:
>
>> From the git coding guideline : "We prefer $( ... ) for command
>> substitution; unlike ``, it properly nests.  It should have been the way
>> Bourne spelled it from day one, but unfortunately isn't."
>
> There was only one time in my life as a developer when I had to change a
> $(...) to a `...` construct. I do not really remember all the details, but
> I think it was on MacOSX, and it was inside a case ... esac and the
> closing parentheses was mistaken for a case arm (the $(...) construct
> might have been multi-line, is the only thing that would make sense in my
> mind.
>
> Did you hear of similar problems?

I not personally. The autoconf manual does not seem to me (for that i can remember) to mention this possible incompatibility, for example.

Best

>
> Ciao,
> Dscho