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Date: Wed,  1 May 2013 02:44:31 +0300
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From: suharik <gleb.ax.sh@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC 2013] Implement plan9 commands in Go, Goblin
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With := you can define locale variable where you need it.
That's like pascal style (where you define all variables before the
code) versus c style (where you define variables with code).
Not critical, but there is a practical issue.


2013/5/1 erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>:
> On Tue Apr 30 18:50:42 EDT 2013, gleb.ax.sh@gmail.com wrote:
>> > syntax is: var=val cmd
>> Sure, foo=() bar=() baz=() { ... } works, but that's not very practical.
>
> i don't see the practical issue.  the idiom described works fine.
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> not liking the syntax is not a good reason to introduce incompatable
> ways of doing things.
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> - erik
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