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Re: Declared Var Dynamic Initialization = No Return Code Back?
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Eduardo Bustamante |
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Re: Declared Var Dynamic Initialization = No Return Code Back? |
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Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:20:35 -0700 |
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Adam Danischewski
<adam.danischewski@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Declaring a variable doesn't seem risky enough to eat up the return code.
> Is there a reason for this? I doubt that it would break anything to change.
> It's a lot more intuitive and syntactically streamlined to check for
> missing packages/software at the initial declaration as a sanity check.
This topic has been discussed several times in the past. Please
review: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2010-03/msg00010.html
and https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2010-03/msg00036.html
for an explanation.