On 19 July 2010 21:30, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> i imagine this might be useful in some scenarios, but i think the more common
> usage is to enable things inline.  otherwise, the exported API would need to
> be wrapped internally like:
> get_all_version_components() {
>        eshopts_need _get_all_version_components -s extglob
> }

It's meant to work to just define get_all_version_components with the
assumption that extglob will be enabled, and then call eshopts_need in
global scope right after.

> although, the method we have now also
> allows for disabling of shopts before calling `die`.  not sure if that's
> important, but i think it's better to disable before all exit/termination
> points.

That's a reasonable point.

> so unless their is a consumer now we can point to in the tree, i'm inclined to
> leave this alone.

Fair enough.

> there are already eshopts_push/pop funcs that accomodate more things than the
> usage here, but i imagine you did it this way just to make testing in your
> shell easier
> -mike

It was supposed to support everything the existing functions do (not
everything demonstrated in the example for brevity), but I might have
missed something.

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