Are you trolling us?

[eduardo-chibas]

What I am doing is more complicated that people think.  Cannot really set
defaults before reading certain parameters, because in some instances I need
information from other user arguments to construct the default, rather than
being able to decide a-priori.  But if the user wants to specify the variable
himself, then I allow it.

Dynamic scoping creates problem as I need variables to be defined locally.
The suggestion is to set everything.

Thus

local help=0 ; f=0 ; vb=0 ; fs="" ; incl="" ; excl="" ; pn=0 ; qn=0 ; dyn=1 ; 
ctx=8 ; fdir=""

A simple script has became a monster.

> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2021 at 3:44 AM
> From: eduardo-chibas@caramail.com
> To: chet.ramey@case.edu
> Cc: "Greg Wooledge" <greg@wooledge.org>, help-bash@gnu.org
> Subject: Are you trolling us?
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> > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2021 at 2:48 AM
> > From: "Chet Ramey" <chet.ramey@case.edu>
> > To: eduardo-chibas@caramail.com
> > Cc: "Greg Wooledge" <greg@wooledge.org>, help-bash@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: Are you trolling us?
> >
> > On 7/29/21 1:46 AM, eduardo-chibas@caramail.com wrote:
> > > They are legit questions.  How can I ever obligate anyone to
> > > answer !!!  The problem is rather about individuals getting high
> > > on mushrooms and seeing all sort of conspiracies and attacks,
> > > *influencing others not to respond to any of my questions and of
> > > other people too*.
> >
> > Yes, it's exactly that sort of conspiracy that's going on here, very
> > good.
> >
> > It's much simpler than you think. People on this list are generous and
> > willing to help. They get suspicious of motivations if the goalposts
> > start to shift. Nothing more complicated than that.
>
> Your brain can be easily fooled.
>
> > --
> > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
> >              ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
> >
> >
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