From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17051 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2013 00:57:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 31834 Received: (qmail 11921 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2013 00:57:27 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Message-ID: <525F3484.2070503@case.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:51:16 -0400 From: Chet Ramey Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu Organization: ITS, Case Western Reserve University User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart Schaefer CC: Zsh hackers list , chet.ramey@case.edu Subject: Re: Important discussion about "local" on the POSIX list References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv1.tis.cwru.edu) On 10/16/13 8:27 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > austin-group is discussing a proposal to make local variables > lexical/static in scope, rather than dynamic in scope as in bash and > zsh. I will object to any change that requires static scoping. At worst, scoping rules will be undefined. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/