2014-12-09 20:55:02 +0800, konsolebox: [...] > As for the other things, I was actually only concerned about the > dangerous behavior that's synonymous to "eval $b" so I didn't really > thought about discussing them. And I'm only referring to Bash when I > made the suggestions. Other shells certainly does not support local > scopes. [...]
Not sure what you mean by that last sentence, but all of dash, yash, mksh, pdksh, AT&T ksh, posh, zsh (so virtually all modern Bourne-like shells) do support local scopes each with variations of behaviour and syntax. -- Stephane
