On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 11:56 , Kevin Old wrote:
> 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?
in it's self this is
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 PR
Kevin Old wrote:
>
> Hello all,
Hello,
> 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?
If you are interpolating a variable in a text str
Perhaps he/she smoked lots of crack and had a hard time seeing the variables
and liked to use emacs for syntax highlighting. Or perhaps he/she had too
much crack and was confused if the script should really be a Makefile.
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> From: Kevin Old [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
