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Comment by Levitating

5 months ago

I am curious if this could also be implemented as a command named (

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cosmos0072  5 months ago

You mean a command or builtin `(` inside a traditional shell as bash or zsh?

It would be quite limited:

internal status would not persist between invocations,

and it would only be able to exchange unstructured data (a stream of bytes) with the shell

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