On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:50:11PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Johannes Stezenbach <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually the spec says "Function parameter names shall be local to the > > function; all other variable names shall be global." > > > > -> no special handling for loop variable names, they are global > > Right. > > > And looking at the script, it should work correctly with that: > > > > for (l in libs) > > output(l); > > > > output() changes l, but that should not be a problem for > > the given script; > > The problem isn't in changed value of l. > > The problem is that inner loop trashes *the list of strings > we are iterating over* in outer loop, and thus outer loop's > iteration is broken (it does not iterate over all strings).
Yes, you are right. However, I was merely pointing out that the standard defines the loop variable semantics and that both gawk and mawk follow that standard in this respect. Johannes _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
