From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: local unfunction
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 22:10:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3RBu1wE=m76eeF6+LEAbDAJDE1E6zfeuddxf5LPhW8i4w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e0faf6b-b19e-b6d6-0eb7-6ea20b2c2154@eastlink.ca>
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 6:11 PM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> Is it possible to unfunction something just within another function? I've
> tried:
>
> unset -fm ....
>
> ... but the functions remain dead after the calling function returns. I can
> of course just resource them, but I'll bet the unset can be made local.
If it's okay to also cancel all other side effects, you can use a subshell,
function() hey {
normal stuff here
(
unfunction foo
foo
a=5 # this will also disappear after the )
)
}
--
Mikael Magnusson
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-30 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-30 16:11 Ray Andrews
2018-03-30 18:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-03-31 0:30 ` Ray Andrews
2018-03-31 5:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-03-31 14:58 ` Ray Andrews
2018-03-30 20:10 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
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