From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27651 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2011 13:29:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 27286 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jan 2011 13:28:47 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:28:42 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 450B82C05C8; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:28:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:29:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS) Message-ID: <20110113132840.GC25033@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <44682.83.86.0.251.1294773608.squirrel@lavabit.com> <4D2CFAC9.6040706@laposte.net> <20110112095907.GC6353@calimero.vinschen.de> <4D2D7D5D.7080800@gmx.de> <20110112105559.GI6353@calimero.vinschen.de> <4D2DB29D.7010406@gmx.de> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209BD8DAF7B@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209BD8DAF7B@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-q1/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 On Jan 13 08:07, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > So if one wants to use something that always works, use $(). But when I disagree, see below... > `command` works, there is no reason not to use it if one wants to. > Personally, I still use backticks fairly often. > (1) On my keyboard, they are significantly easier to type than $(). > (2) It is a habit; $() did not exist when I started to learn scripting. I use them almost exclusively on the command line, for the simple reason that I'm using tcsh, which doesn't know the $() syntax. Therefore, from *my* point of view as a tcsh user, "if one wants to use something that always works, use backticks ;) Corinna