On 2019/07/10 06:22, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/9/19 11:24 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
>
>
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>> Why? What makes clarity "horrible". If someone didn't know shell's
>> way of assigning different attributes to 'declare', vs. most languages
>> having
>> different keywords or variable notations would be more familiar.
>>
>
> Clarity is fine, but it's an individual thing, and requires additional
> context. If it makes things easier for you, great, but one of the things
> you have to sacrifice is the ability for other people to help you figure
> things out.
>
>
If I submit something for other to look at, I usually have a key
at the top:
shopt -s expand_aliases
alias my=declare int='my -i ' array='my -a ' map='my -A
If they don't understand that, then I'd be skeptical of how much help
I'd be sacrificing.
Regardless, I use such things as a matter of health. The fewer repetitive
characters I have to type, the better.
I find that using a small subset like the above is within the capabilities
of most shell programmers.
