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From: Chris Siebenmann <cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: Re: export of variables and functions
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1991 11:04:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <91Sep27.120446edt.2706@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: malte's message of Fri, 27 Sep 91 06:02:05 -0400. <9109271002.AA07020@dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>

 I actually think that exporting everything is the right decision,
and certainly should be the default. All of my 'local' variables
tend to be function-local, as opposed to shell-local, and we already
have a mechanism for that. How many shell-local variables do people
have/would have?

	- cks


  reply	other threads:[~1991-09-27 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1991-09-27 10:02 malte
1991-09-27 16:04 ` Chris Siebenmann [this message]
1991-09-27 13:29 Rich Salz
1991-09-27 14:24 Donn Cave

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