Re: Functions that update themselves

[Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 03:54:59PM +0800, konsolebox wrote:
> Hi Chet,
> 
> Do you explicitly allow functions to do this?  I just want to know.
> 
> a() { a() { ...; }; a; }
> b() { unset -f b; command b "$@"; }
> 
> My current use case for this is to have a function simplify itself
> when condition checks are no longer necessary and just adds
> unnecessary runtime load.  I also had many other previous ones.
> 
> -- 
> konsolebox

This does not seem to be a bug report. Maybe you meant to send this to
the help-bash list?

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Kusalananda
Sweden