Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] builtins/source: parse the -i option

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/20/24 4:17 PM, Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira wrote:
> > And yet people are so opposed to the option that they want ridiculous
> > restrictions like `you can never alias source="source -i"'.
>
> Yeah. I already feel like I'm insane for even suggesting it.

People feel strongly, it seems. More strongly than I, at least, guessed.

> > Because other people don't see the issue the same way you do,
> > and have their own way of doing things?
>
> I suppose. I tried to argue for my viewpoint but convinced no one.

I had no idea that my prompting discussion would result in this much.

I suppose we've all learned that there are a dozen, all slightly
different, bash library/package managers.

> For the record I think `source -p $VAR` is an even better solution
> than what I proposed. I can send a patch if necessary.

It has some of the same semantic issues. Does using it disable searching
$PWD? Should it fall back to $PATH? What do you do with a null value? (Yes,
no, same as you do today.) It just avoids introducing a new variable.


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