Joey Hess wrote: > Unless, of course, it's a shell library that would like to be reasonably > portable without being wholey crippled by lack features that have been > in every shell worth the name for ages.
I know that the debconf library used "local" (#242011) and I agree that "local" is an example of a shell feature whose use we should not be discouraging. That's why it is proposed that "local" be added (alongside "echo -n") as an exception to the POSIX-only rule expressed in 10.4. (Both bash and dash support "local".) If you agree then it would be helpful to mention this in #294962. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
