Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 08:23:18PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>
>> > > MEDIADIR=`pwd`
>> >
>> > Don't use all caps variable names.
>>
>> Without getting into syntax-religious wars, what is the reasoning behind
>> this recommendation? Roger
>
> All-caps names are reserved for environment variables (HOME, PATH),
> and internal shell variables (IFS, PWD, HISTFILE).
Is it described somewhere in docs?
>
> Avoiding all-caps names allows you to avoid collisions with a variable
> name that might be used for something else. Most of the time. This
Well, I think that reasonable prefix ("KJ_" :) ) prevent this :)
KJ
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