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	- support for extended pattern matching
	- support for exec (but not the fd version)
	- added option support for unset
	- added support for autoload and typeset -fu
	- #! line now takes the path from the current perl configuration
	- improved environment variable handling
	- improved variable expansion, now supports ${var##pat} and ${var%%pat}
	- output file is now given the same permissions as the input
	- the default list in 'for' is now @ARGV in main, or @_ in a subroutine
	- ~ added to glob characters
	- improved handling of multi-line statements
	- fixed bug where $0 was translated to $ARGV[-1]
	- fixed bug where a free-standing colon (':') failed
	- fixed bug concerning comment after redirection
	- fixed bug when testing the 'system' command - now test explictly for zero return.
	- fixed bug where a user function call with no arguments gave a single double-quote.
0.04  Wed Oct 06 17:00:00 2008
	- removed the Runtime module and the -r option
	- added -t option for test output (not for general use)
	- heredoc subroutines are now appended as required
	- support for true and false
	- support for text permissions in chmod
	- implemented 'let', umask, chgrp
	- built-in support for tr (which may use lc or uc)
	- built-in support for touch
	- some improvements to string handling
	- improvements to cd
	- arrays are supported, including set -A, [*] and [@] quoted and non-quoted, ${!array[@]}, ${#array[@]}
	- improvements to pipeline handling
	- limited support for subshells
	- fixed bugs concerning multiple and logical operators in test, [, and [[
	- fixed bug when a comment followed a compound statement (while, if, else, etc.)
	- fixed bug concerning variable handling in case statement
	- fixed bug where some glob constructs were incorrectly quoted
	- fixed implementation of chown
	- fixed bug where some INSPECT messages could be displayed several times 
	  for each occurence
	- Improved error reporting
0.05  Sat Feb 07 17:00:00 2009
	- new modules: Trap.pm, Statement.pm
	- internal structure changes concerning BREAK markers (which fixed '7' bugs)
	- fixed bugs concerning shortcuts (|| and &&) following external calls and print/echo 
	- fixed bug in Builtins.pm (do_print) where a variable was declared twice
	- fixed bug in case statements where the do{} block was not terminated with ;
	- fixed bug in case statement where statements were concatenated
	- fixed bug with case statement nested inside other conditional
	- fixed indentation with trailing } in esac
	- fixed bug in 'let' where variable omitted sigil
	- fixed bug where 'if' statements were sometimes unterminated
	- fixed bug where an uninitialised array index was not declared with 'my'
	- fixed bug in subshells where new variables were not declared in the correct scope
	- fixed bugs where empty strings "" were handled incorrectly
	- fixed bug with back-ticks embedded inside " quotes
	- fixed bug where command name was a variable inside "
	- fixed bug with -t option handling of multi-line commands
	- fixed bug concerning declare/typeset and "Token count wrong!" 
	- fixed bug where a | embedded in a string was seen as a pipe
	- fixed bugs concerning commands embedded in quotes
	- conversion of advise command in back-ticks changed to be a concat. string
	- support for trap - see documentation for restrictions 
	- the & operator (run in background) is now placed inside a system call.
	- improvements to 'here' document handling
	- improvements to $* handling
	- improvements to redirection
	- improvements to testing, including the provision of main()
0.06  Sun Feb 08 17:00:00 2009
	- fixed bug in chmod, chown, chgrp, which gave "Token count wrong!"
	- fixed bug in kill which gave "Token count wrong!"
	- fixed bug with filename quoting in chmod, et. al.
	- fixed bug where a bare Perl reference was displayed
	- fixed bug in export where environment vars. on rhs were not recognised
	- corrected quoting of bareword value in export
	- corrected quoting in source/. command
	- corrected quoting in touch command
	- fixed bug where variable type (integer, etc.) was sometimes missed
	- improved diagnostics when using shopt