Re: [Help-bash] Adding missing bash features for safely re-usable bash code

[adrelanos]

Pierre Gaston:
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:19 PM, adrelanos <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> Asking the other way around...
>>
>> Pierre Gaston:
>>> It may be difficult to write safely re-usable bash code
>>
>> This doesn't look like something impossible to do, just like a missing
>> feature in bash.
>>
> 
> That doesn't seem so simple to do to me.
> 
> What are the missing features in bash for writing easily, safely
>> re-usable bash code?
>>
> 
> Without thinking too much about it what comes to my mind immediately:
>  * bash has only one name space for functions, so it's easy to overwrite
> any function used in a module.
> * There's only one name space for global variables
> * There's a gazillion of options (shopt and set) to globally modify bash
> behavior (including parsing)
> 
> I don't think it's comprehensive by any measure
> 
> 
>> Could bash be extended with these missing features?
>>
> 
> Maybe but I thought the most interesting part of my email was where I said
> that I don't think it prevents someone from making such a repository now,
> and that by starting now it can bring some good things such as some
> guidelines and coding style guides.
> 
> I will even go as far as reverting your point of view: starting such a
> repository might help to identify what new features would really help .
> 
> In many projects what is lacking are not the features and a big list of
> "must have" but someone starting to do the actual work. (And no I don't
> volunteer)
> 

I agree.