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From: ggs@ulysses.UUCP (Griff Smith)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Gosub
Message-ID: <1204@ulysses.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 15:39:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 15:39:46 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Mar-86 21:51:18 EST
References: <1511@brl-smoke.ARPA>, <1201@ulysses.UUCP> <620@bentley.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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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.

True, for the System V shell.  Ksh saves and restores $* correctly, and
functions are definitely useful.
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