evaluation order wrong?

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From: Roland McGrath
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1989 15:47

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The evaluation order of ~ vs $ is not like csh's.  Maybe this is wrong?

For example, in bash:

foo='~/bin'
echo $foo
~/bin
echo ~/bin
/gp/fsf/roland/bin


In csh:

set foo='~/bin'
echo $foo
/gp/fsf/roland/bin

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