Any Bash features you'd like to see?

[Peter]

On Thu, 12 May 2005, Stewart C. Russell wrote:

>> But why not go all the way ...
>
> Do I get to say, "Bash is a nice operating system, but it lacks a
> lightweight scripting language" now?

On the other hand, why would it be possible to put a here-file in bash 
just about anywhere, and why would that not be a script in the language 
used by the command $0 in that statement ? like:

/some/interpreter -flag -bar -baz -- <<EOF
 	command1
 	command2
 	command3
 	#etc ...
EOF

what's the difference, except it makes escaping and avoiding unwanted 
side effects (like /some/interpreter being able to export variables we 
don't really want it to be able to) more interesting vs. my 'solution' ?

After all bash *is* the default shell in all linux versions being 
marketed and it is used to run most system chores (esp. /etc/init.d etc 
lately relies on bash functionality and no longer runs under /bin/sh 
only afaik).

Peter
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