On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Stuart Jansen wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if bash borrowed the behavior & the name from
Perl.
You've got your history backward there, sonny. Now get off my lawn!
You may be just kidding, but I am interested to know the history.
Perl gained "local" in Perl 2.0, with this commit:
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/378cc40b38293ffc7298c6a7ed3cd740ad79be52
commit 378cc40b38293ffc7298c6a7ed3cd740ad79be52
Author: Larry Wall <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Jun 5 00:00:00 1988 +0000
The oldest version of bash I found is 1.14 from 1994, and it had local
too. There doesn't appear to be a public version control repository for
bash, oddly. Wikipedia claims bash was created in 1987, but I can't show
whether it had local then or not. Does anyone have any older versions
floating around?
Jon
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