Hi, I am proposing to add local function to bash. This will help manage the namespace in bash and will improve performance by move functions used to be in global namespace to local namespaces.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2015-04/msg00014.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-04/msg00091.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-04/msg00147.html However, Chet, the maintainer of bash, basically requires showing real examples why this is a necessary feature. This is a dilemma, because the real benefit of local functions will only be apparent for very large library based on bash, but lacking such a feature limit the size of any real bash library that can become, and as such, there are few bash libraries that I know of. Or bash programmers need to use some dirty tricks for problems which should really be solved by local functions. bash-completion is one bash library that I know. I believe local function can help the development of bash-compeletion (and other bash library) in the long run. If any of you also thinks so, would you please join the discussion in help-bash/bug-bash to provide more realistic examples and to show how having local functions can improve bash library development, e.g., for bash-completion? Thanks. -- Regards, Peng _______________________________________________ Bash-completion-devel mailing list Bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bash-completion-devel
