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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Why do we need "eval"? (Expect question)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:24:58 -0000 (UTC)
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Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
> In article <vc0lm1$npv9$1@dont-email.me>,
> Harald Oehlmann  <wortkarg3@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Am 12.09.2024 um 20:45 schrieb Kenny McCormack:
>>> ISTM that this {*} thing is a relatively recent addition to the langauge,
>>> since Expect has been around for a long time, and most of the scripts that
>>> do this sort of thing were written long ago.
>>
>>"Relatively recent" is quite relative. Here is the relevant changes file 
>>entry:
>>
>>2006-11-02 (feature change)[TIP 293] Replace {expand} with {*} (hobbs)
>>       *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY with previous 8.5 alphas only ***
>>
>>;-)
> 
> The other poster seemed to think 2016 (not 2006).  That's still 8 years
> ago...

I pulled a date for a "point version" of 8.5 instead of 8.5.0.