"brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think it's fine that we restrict the use of local to within a > function. In fact, dash (Debian and Ubuntu's default /bin/sh) exits > unsuccessfully if you use local outside of a function. All of the above sounds quite sensible. > Is there some place in particular that you've found we're using it > outside of a function? I don't know about others, but I'm certainly > interested in fixing these. It looks like we do use it in a function in > t0000 itself, though. Yup, we definitely should fix it if there is a use of "local" at the top-level outside a function that does not make sense. The one in the t0000 that tests if "local" behaves the way we expect it to looks OK to me.
