Re: define (or translate, or substitute for) "interpolate": Re: rsync --delete
On Saturday, October 17, 2020 06:01:13 PM David Christensen wrote:
I don't use Bourne arrays, and I barely understand how the shell
interpolates lists and preserves items containing whitespace. When I
can't figure it out, I switch to Perl.
On 2020-10-19 05:29, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
I'm looking for an alternate thing to think of when I see the word
interpolate -- I guess maybe interpret or substitute would be good
ways for me to think about it (think when I see the word interpolate)
(maybe see rant, below).
On Monday, October 19, 2020 08:55:01 AM tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
To be fair, you should quote wikipedia thoroughly. In the
disambiguation page [1] you do find the current use:
String interpolation, in computing, the substitution of variables by
their values
"String interpolation" is what I meant. Thank you for finding the
reference. :-)
David
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