On Sat, 05 Jul 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I suggest that Policy be amended to require that
> >
> > local a b c=delta e
> >
> > scope variables a, b, c, and e as local, and assign the
> > string "delta" to the local c.
>
> Here is a proposed patch that implements Clint's suggestion. Seconds?
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On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 13:31:20 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I observe that
> >
> > a) POSIX specifies the behavior of 'export' and 'readonly'
> > b) Implementation of 'local' is often very similar to 'export' and
> > 'readonly'
> >and in the absen
Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I observe that
>
> a) POSIX specifies the behavior of 'export' and 'readonly'
> b) Implementation of 'local' is often very similar to 'export' and 'readonly'
>and in the absence of a standardized 'local', it makes sense to
>specify a similar form.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:16:31PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The intention when I originally wrote the text was to not allow declaring
> multiple variables with one local line, since at the time I was told that
> some shells didn't support this.
>
> I think your first patch is therefore correct
Thanks for the quick response, Russ.
On Thu 2008-03-27 16:16:31 -0400, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The intention when I originally wrote the text was to not allow declaring
> multiple variables with one local line, since at the time I was told that
> some shells didn't support this.
>
> I think your fi
Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.7.3.0
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> The "scripts" section of chapter 10 is somewhat ambiguous about
> whether declaring multiple local variables is acceptable or not:
>
> file:///usr/share/doc/debian-poli
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.3.0
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The "scripts" section of chapter 10 is somewhat ambiguous about
whether declaring multiple local variables is acceptable or not:
file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-files.html#s-scripts
For example, is the follo
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