Fix variable expansion on expressions. #107
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It's known variables expand earlier than expression evaluations. The procedure
would fail if
a
isn't set. The correct behavior is to evaluate$?a
first, and, if expanded to zero, cancel further processing.This work remedies the issue by postponing variable expansions during expression evaluations. The function
Dfix1
is used for I/O redirections, and fails if the expansion is null or, if not quoted, larger than one word/vector. I believe this behavior is fine.This work was also supposed to fix
$<
expansions on pipes and redirections. I had some success with a fix, but ends up blocking the shell, making it unusable and uninterruptible.