From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] CodingGuidelines: explicitly allow "local" for test scripts
Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 19:08:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6091e1f12ddf9_cc8208b9@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJHWJRYOcFEvHoD/@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>
brian m. carlson wrote:
> On 2021-05-04 at 15:09:54, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > My aim here was to discover if we had any reason to think that "local"
> > was less universally implemented than other POSIX/C89-plus features we
> > rely on. It seems that it's not.
>
> "local" is missing in AT&T ksh.
It's not missing, it's supported only in "functions", which have a
different syntax in ksh:
function f { local x="foo"; echo $x; }; f
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-05 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-03 4:10 [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: explicitly allow "local" for test scripts Junio C Hamano
2021-05-03 4:21 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-05-03 5:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-03 5:23 ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2021-05-03 9:01 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-04 3:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-04 12:27 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-04 12:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-04 15:09 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-04 20:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-04 23:17 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-04 23:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-05 0:08 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-05-05 1:58 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-05 3:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-05 14:16 ` Jeff King
2021-05-05 17:18 ` Felipe Contreras
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