On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 08:27 -0700, Jon Jensen wrote: > The oldest version of bash I found is 1.14 from 1994, and it had local > too. There doesn't appear to be a public version control repository for > bash, oddly. Wikipedia claims bash was created in 1987, but I can't show > whether it had local then or not. Does anyone have any older versions > floating around?
I don't know when Bash added the "local" keyword, but Bash is largely based on Ksh which uses "typeset" to create local variables. -- When you tell me I should give proprietary software a fair technical evaluation because its features are so nice, what you are actually doing is saying "Look at the shine on those manacles!" to someone who remembers feeling like a slave. -- Eric S. Raymond /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
