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Bourne shells as early as Version 7 Unix (1979, [1]) had rather elaborate interpolation of variables into strings (i.e., not just ${foo} but ${foo?bar}, etc.).
by mturmon 7y ago
Bourne shells as early as Version 7 Unix (1979, [1]) had rather elaborate interpolation of variables into strings (i.e., not just ${foo} but ${foo?bar}, etc.).
I'm reasonably sure that earlier versions of sh had some facility for this as well.
So, it's not really a PHP innovation, although some people might have seen it first there.
[1] https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/v7/ https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/v7/ -> "Parameter substitution"
- wongarsu 7y agoApparently Unix Version 6 (1975) used Thompson Shell which (provided the manuals are correct [1][2]) didn't support arbitrary variables (and even environment variables were not a thing back then). However for use in scripts $0, $1, etc were replaces with the script name and the arguments. 1: https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/v6/ https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/v6/ 2: https://etsh.nl/man/_tsh.1.html https://etsh.nl/man/_tsh.1.html