Dan Stromberg wrote:
Having a shell function's variable changes reflected in its caller really kinda makes me shudder - in fact, it reminds me of gosub. It seems like a bug waiting to happen; I'm amazed I haven't been bitten by it yet.
This is as Posix has standardized: all variables are global, and there is no official mechanism to create function-scope variables without using a subshell. (This won't go to comp.unix.shell; I don't use usenet any more.) Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
