On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> Am I missing something? I thought they did exactly the same thing in
> bash. If I'm not wrong about that, then as far as bash is concerned,
> they are in fact synonyms and functionally equivalent.
Yes declare and typeset are identical in ba
Dan Douglas schreef op 20-02-16 om 21:55:
> "typeset" vs. "declare" isn't always a straightforward decision
> depending on one's requirements. Bash's "typeset" has always
> been there for portability despite being a synonym for "declare",
> so I think just calling it a synonym would be counterprodu
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/8371/focus=8377
I meant to post Chet's reply to my question:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/8482
But that whole thread has some good info.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> In 'help typeset', the 'typeset' builtin is called obsolete and has been
> so since at least bash 2.05b (2002) or possibly earlier. Perhaps it's
> time to just call it a synonym, as indeed the texinfo documentation does.
>
> diff -ur bash-4.
In 'help typeset', the 'typeset' builtin is called obsolete and has been
so since at least bash 2.05b (2002) or possibly earlier. Perhaps it's
time to just call it a synonym, as indeed the texinfo documentation does.
diff -ur bash-4.4-beta.orig/builtins/declare.def
bash-4.4-beta/builtins/declare.d
