Re: [Help-bash] starting a central bash script repository

[Steven W. Orr]

On 08/27/12 08:15, quoth Greg Wooledge:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 04:37:46PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
> > For many major program languages, there are central repositories.
>
> That's because those other programming languages have the flexibility
> to write reusable code.
>
> Bash code is not reusable in any sane way.  You can't pass array names
> to functions, for example (this is the #1 problem with writing "libraries"
> of bash code).

I only half agree. I have written a lot of very reusable bash code. Part of 
the story is the use of upvar / upvars from

http://fvue.nl/wiki/Bash:_Passing_variables_by_reference

Part of it is understanding how to use dynamic scoping.

So, the bottom line is that it can be done, but it has to be done in the 
context of an overall framework.

So, where do we go from here?

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