Subject: Re: Re: [ast-users] Is this a bug? -------- > I can understand making new behavior for the new 'function name' > mechanism, and even discouraging the use of the old method, but why go > out of the way to make the behavior of typeset incompatibly different > in the old style 'name()'? > >
Primarily because POSIX didn't add local variables and I was concerned that any extension that was done to POSIX would be incompatible. For example, posix functions does not save and restore trap settings so if I kept this ability, I would be incompatible. Therefore, I decided to do functions correction with function name() and wait until posix acts before I change name(). David Korn [email protected] _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
