Hm I probably could have said "distros are suboptimal" and it would have meant essentially the same thing. But I wasn't disparaging anyone's work, if that's yo

Hm I probably could have said "distros are suboptimal" and it would have meant essentially the same thing. But I wasn't disparaging anyone's work, if that's your concern. "Debian is broken" would be closer to that, but I didn't say that. :) But yes I do think distros are doing the best they can with the raw material they have to work with (upstream sources, autoconf, etc.) I have some ideas for a distro but I think I have my hands full with shell, and it is a big problem because you can't do it by yourself. You need an army to help you maintain packages to some standard! ----- For the shallow problem, I'll probably implement something like set -o hijack-shebang. It's relatively easy for OSH to open scripts it runs and check for a shebang that looks like a shell, and then prepend "osh" to the argv array. It should really only be used for debugging OSH, because it wouldn't be good practice to "lie" about your shebangs. That logic is fundamental and baked into the kernel! "trap" has come up a lot, although I'm not sure if it will be in the 0.4 release. I'm making releases pretty often -- every 6 weeks or so. "alias" is interesting because it sits between the lexer and the parser, and no other shell feature is like that.