why Unix?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:41:36 -0400, Jarrett Billingsley  
<jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
> <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>> (It also follows that if you wrote a full shellscript, in a .mdsh file
>>> or something, the compiler would, when compiling it, start in MiniD
>>> mode by default so you wouldn't have to escape every statement with a
>>> %.)
>
>> I'm a little confused on the escaping.  In one example, it looks like %
>> turns MiniD alternately on and off, yet you say you'd have to escape  
>> every
>> line in a script file?
>
> I'm sure if you read what I've quoted here, you'll see your mistake ;)
>

What it looks like to me then is:

if you are in interactive mode, the default is script mode, and % turns  
miniD on and off, which continues beyond a single line
if you are in a script mode, then you are always in miniD mode, unless it  
sees %, which turns it to script mode for a single line.

This is very confusing to me :)

I'm citing your original example:

  > %foreach(file; shell.ls())  -> clearly % escaped to miniD mode
.. {
..      writeln("processing file ", file) -> still in miniD mode, right?
..      %something $file   -> back to shell mode, right?
.. } -> um... in shell mode still maybe?  or not?

If I'm still mistaken, don't worry about trying to help me understand.   
I'm sure you wouldn't release something like this, so I'll wait until I  
have mdsh to play with before I complain :)

-Steve