On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, Roger wrote:
They still allow you to define constants in all-caps. The impact it
makes is not so different with defining globals as such. Try Ruby.
The reason I used to prefer using all uppercase/capital letters, the variable
definitations would stand out similar to C st
>They still allow you to define constants in all-caps. The impact it
>makes is not so different with defining globals as such. Try Ruby.
The reason I used to prefer using all uppercase/capital letters, the variable
definitations would stand out similar to C style definition macros. Variables
On Wed, 29 Jan 2020, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 1/29/20 2:05 PM, Roger wrote:
"Linux Shell Scripting with Bash." (Burtch) suggested using declare instead of
local, due to local lacking the other switches declare provides. p262 (eg.
declare can specify type of variable, such as integar only.)
This
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:37:26AM +0800, konsolebox wrote:
> You can still use all caps on global variables just mind the internal
> variables.
Easier said than done. How many times have you had to diagnose
someone's failing script, and it turned out the reason it was failing
was because they us
Date:Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:57:48 -0500
From:Greg Wooledge
Message-ID: <20200129185748.gf1...@eeg.ccf.org>
| A script is supposed to be a self-contained entity, as much as possible.
| It isn't supposed to be part of some web of tangled dependencies.
In general I agr
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 2:40 PM Roger wrote:
> 1) Using an underslash on all capitol variable names just looks ugly in my
> opinion.
If you mean adding an underscore prefix I agree.
> 2) Prefixing variable names with the name of the script (or other lengthy
> prefix) requires more characters I c
