On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Dan Douglas <orm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, January 13, 2013 06:02:26 PM Michał Górny wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 07:36:59 -0800 >> Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > local -i ret >> > ? >> >> Looks good. I didn't even know bash has something like that. >> > > Useless use of -i is usually unhelpful. In Bash (but not all shells), it's > slower, because it's still just storing the value as a string and marking the > variable with the integer attribute which modifies the way certain assignments > behave. > > It doesn't do any harm in this specific case, but there are a lot of gotchas > with -i to be aware of if you're going to use it. > -- > Dan Douglas
It is bash...there are lots of gotchas with almost *all* of bash's features ;) -A
