>>>>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 19:08:09 Brian Harring wrote:
>> Making it overridable seems wiser-
>>
>> usex() {
>> local flag="$1"
>> local tval=${2-yes}
>> local fval=${3-no}
>> if use $flag; then
>> echo "${tval}"
>> else
>> echo "${fval}"
>> fi
>> }
Looks verbose. ;-)
> i dont get it. mine already does exactly this, just in one line.
> usex() { use $1 && echo ${2:-yes} || echo ${3:-no} ; }
You should omit the colons though. ${2-yes} and ${3-no} will allow for
an explicit empty string as argument, whereas the :- variants won't.
Also quotes around the echo arguments can't harm.
Ulrich
