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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 5, 2016, 13:20 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602051417490.2964@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <CA+EOSBnZVuHThXLg9+VftPVaKy5wqqxp=iQtP1ZUtxkKq32HMQ@mail.gmail.com>

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?

Ciao, Dscho