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From: don fong <dfong@dfong.com>
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Subject: Re: misleading error message from variable modifier
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Chet, thanks.  in subst.c there is code that looks similar to what i had
suggested.  but i don't see the tests that i submitted.  i also don't see
the change listed in CHANGES?







On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 3/1/18 12:24 PM, don fong wrote:
> > any feedback on this patch?
>
> Check the current devel git branch.
>
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>