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Re: bin/48843: sh(1): break/continue/return broken inside dot commands



On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 12:53:56PM -0400, Richard Hansen wrote:
> David voiced his preference for lexical [2]; does anyone else have an
> opinion?

I have yet to see an example of a language with dynamical scoping, where
this "feature" doesn't create more problems than it solves. As such, I
am strongly in favour of plain plexical scoping. I don't see any reason
why implementing it is harder than dynamic scoping...

Joerg


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