On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Martin Bähr
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 05:54:05PM -0400, Philip Ganchev wrote:
>> On 6/2/08, Piotr Husiatyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > var=$(dmenu_path | dmenu); exec $var
>> function temp_func; dmenu_path | dmenu; end
>> temp_func
>> functions -e temp_func
>
> that function will run dmenu_path | dmenu every time, but in the above
> case $var can be reused multiple dtimes while dmenu_path | dmenu is only
> run once.
True. Since "var" is not local, the equivalent in fish is just
omitting the last line ("functions -e temp_func"). I agree, though,
that it may be useful to be able to declare functions as local.
> in this example it may not matter, but in other cases it can make a
> difference if running the command has sideeffects or changes the result.
Not sure what you mean.
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