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From: Borzenkov Andrey <Andrey.Borzenkov@siemens.com>
To: "'Haakon Riiser'" <haakon.riiser@fys.uio.no>, zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: RE: Scope of local parameters
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 10:47:38 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6134254DE87BD411908B00A0C99B044F05A0C913@mowd019a.mow.siemens.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030501172022.GA4179@s.chello.no>

> 
> Are there ways to limit the scope of local parameters besides
> functions?  Say you want to colorize the prompt, and you use
> helper variables for the color escape sequences:
> 
>   local RED=...
>   local GREEN=...
>   local BLUE=...
> 
>   PS1=<use RGB variables here>
> 
> If I do this in ~/.zshrc, or a file sourced by .zshrc, the
> variables declared local do not disappear after sourcing ~/.zshrc.
> 
> One way to work around this is to wrap the PS1 initialization in
> an auxiliary function, but then you have the same problem with
> the scope of the function. :-)  Alternatively, one could
> 
>   unset RED GREEN BLUE
> 
> after setting PS1, but this doesn't feel quite right.  What if
> the parameters RED GREEN BLUE already existed?  There has to be
> a better way.
> 

Would you please next time specify Zsh version?


local foo=XXX
"~/.zshrc" 127L, 1859C written

bor@itsrm2% zsh
bor@itsrm2% echo $foo

bor@itsrm2% echo $ZSH_VERSION
4.1.1-test-1

-andrey


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-05  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-01 17:20 Haakon Riiser
2003-05-05  6:47 ` Borzenkov Andrey [this message]
2003-05-05  6:57   ` 'Haakon Riiser'
2003-05-05  7:37     ` Borzenkov Andrey
2003-05-05  8:06     ` Borzenkov Andrey
2003-05-06 10:04       ` Peter Stephenson

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