That's not really Shiyao's question. The question really ends up being,
'What is the scope of a fish file outside of a function body?' Most
programming languages have an implicit scope for the program itself.
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:56 AM Glenn Jackman <jack...@pythian.com> wrote:
> The local scope is the function body, while it's running. Your example
> does not really demonstrate it. This does:
>
> $ set KK 3
> $ function foo; set -l KK 33; echo $KK; end
> $ echo $KK
> 3
> $ foo
> 33
> $ echo $KK
> 3
>
>
> Another way to introduce a scope is with `begin`:
>
> $ echo $KK; begin; set -l KK 44; echo $KK; end; echo $KK
> 3
> 44
> 3
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Shiyao MA <i...@introo.me> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For the following script,
>>
>> // test.fish
>> set -l KK 3
>>
>> function main
>> echo $KK
>> end
>>
>> main
>>
>> // file ends...
>>
>> echo $KK will give nothing.
>>
>> My question is, for "set -l KK 3". What does the -l (local) mean here?
>>
>> --
>> Best,
>> Shiyao
>>
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