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Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion

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On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 2:40 PM Roger <rogerx.oss@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) Using an underslash on all capitol variable names just looks ugly in my
> opinion.

If you mean adding an underscore prefix I agree.

> 2) Prefixing variable names with the name of the script (or other lengthy
> prefix) requires more characters I could be using for describing my variable or
> function.  (If I were writing unreadable code, I probably would not mind.)

Really just useful if you're writing in multiple scripts.

> I've decided to comply with Google's Style guidelines, even though they do not
> pay me a paycheck, but they do give me lots of free stuff.  Shrugs, besides,
> the more my Bash scripting looks like C, the easier it is to read.
>
> The can push me away from defining my variables in all capitol letters.  They
> can even push me to code in C and Assembly, but just don't push me to script in
> Python.

They still allow you to define constants in all-caps.  The impact it
makes is not so different with defining globals as such.  Try Ruby.

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konsolebox

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