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From: kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Gosub
Message-ID: <620@bentley.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 21:37:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 21:37:56 1986
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In article <1511@brl-smoke.ARPA> cotrell@nbs writes:
>>To answer a somewhat different question, while I am opposed to [gosub]
>>in C ... I would very much like to see this in shell command files.
>>... I feel that the overhead of opening another file and the
>>difficulty of passing back results (`cmd args` is limited) justifies it.

and in article <1201@ulysses.UUCP> ulysses!ggs answers:
>Sorry jim, we're ahead of you.  It's called "function"...

Now if only shell function calls didn't destroy the $* variable, they might
be useful.