probably he was following some kind of house standard or was used to doing
it that way with shell script, in which is a little more common.
the reason remains the same, you can see when the variable name starts and
stops, that's all.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Old [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 11:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Variables and Modules
>
> Hello all,
>
> Quick question about variables. I am editing a few scripts written by
> another programmer and he programs every variable surrounded in brackets,
> like ${var_name}.
>
> Is there any advantage to this?
>
> The only reason I can think that he is doing this is because of the module
>
> that is used. Maybe to localize the variable or something like that.
>
> But, I thought that all variables not specified by a module
> ($Mod_name::var_name) were localized to that script.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Any help is appreciated
>
> Kevin
>
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