Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Assuming you don't need recursion, here's a thought. Use "local", but > stick to the convention that all variable names are unique. On > systems that don't support "local", define a function named "local" > that warns if any of its arguments is a variable whose value is set; That would also (spuriously) warn if you call a function with local variables a second time, unless you explicitly unset the local variables before returning. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf