Re: [PATCH v2] CodingGuidelines: explicitly allow "local" for test scripts

brian m. carlson wrote:

On 2021-05-04 at 15:09:54, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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My aim here was to discover if we had any reason to think that "local"
was less universally implemented than other POSIX/C89-plus features we
rely on. It seems that it's not.

"local" is missing in AT&T ksh.

It's not missing, it's supported only in "functions", which have a
different syntax in ksh:

  function f { local x="foo"; echo $x; }; f

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Felipe Contreras