On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 2:40 PM Roger <rogerx....@gmail.com> 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 could be using for describing my variable > or > function. (If I were writing unreadable code, I probably would not mind.) Really just useful if you're writing in multiple scripts. > I've decided to comply with Google's Style guidelines, even though they do not > pay me a paycheck, but they do give me lots of free stuff. Shrugs, besides, > the more my Bash scripting looks like C, the easier it is to read. > > The can push me away from defining my variables in all capitol letters. They > can even push me to code in C and Assembly, but just don't push me to script > in > Python. 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. -- konsolebox
