Re: [PATCH v2] CodingGuidelines: explicitly allow "local" for test scripts

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 5, 2021, 00:08 UTC
Message-ID: <6091e1f12ddf9_cc8208b9@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <YJHWJRYOcFEvHoD/@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>

brian m. carlson wrote:

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> 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

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Felipe Contreras