Hi Pat,
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:51:53AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> So it seems that there is a kind of caching that cannot be disabled and
> that is preventing such tests to work.
Indeed, you can switch off the cache _file_, so that it is not read at
the beginning and written at the end, bu
Now that there are no doubts about the portability of shell functions
(in the sense that there's always a shell on the machine that supports
function ---and maybe the documentation should reflect this), I'm
curious about the support of "return" and "local". Is there anything
known about them? IS
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now that there are no doubts about the portability of shell functions
> (in the sense that there's always a shell on the machine that supports
> function ---and maybe the documentation should reflect this),
Yes, it should.
> I'm curious about the suppo
Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Assuming you don't need recursion, here's a thought. Use "local", but
>> stick to the convention that all variable names are unique. On
>> systems that don't support "local", define a function named "local"
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Assuming you don't need recursion, here's a thought. Use "local", but
> stick to the convention that all variable names are unique. On
> systems that don't support "local", define a function named "local"
> that warns if any of its arguments is a variabl
