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Re: dot in variable name
From: |
Eric Peterson |
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Re: dot in variable name |
Date: |
Thu, 14 May 2020 15:19:10 -0700 |
> On 14 May 2020, at 10:02, Chet Ramey <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 5/14/20 12:03 PM, Eric Peterson via wrote:
>>
>> I remember reading about variable names containing dots (i.e. tax.amount).
>> Some sort of namespace of variables.
>
> Bash has never allowed dots in variable names. ksh93 introduced dots as a
> kind of namespace delimiter.
>
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
> ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU address@hidden http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
It must have been ksh93 webpages I saw and got confused. Looks like an
interesting idea but I guess to no avail. :). I'll just use underscore to group
logical variables together, i.e.,
tax_amount
tax_rate
etc...
Eric