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["drs. Eric D. Schabell" <erics AT cs.kun.nl>]

I would have to agree with Sandall, I would prefer that all guru's did this, 
and
not for example use the synax like I found in my init.d scripts:

echo "$1ing dhcpcd ...............

This is carrying things a bit too far and is more obscure. Not to start a war 
on
coding practices but the more clear it is the easier it is to attract more 
help
(carity was the main reason I got into this type of distro, bash package
management makes alot of almost-developers take the step into trying actual
development).

Mvg/Regards, 
 
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Quoting Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>:

> 
> Sergey A Lipnevich said:
> > Eric, why are you putting everything in braces ${blah} anyway :-)?
> 
> Well, it's not really necessary and it bloats (a little) the grimoire, but
> I am mostly doing it so that when new SMGL users are looking through the
> code base, they see that parameters are done this way, and so we won't
> have problems with weird variables.  It's mostly to "teach" the new users
> (well, the ones who go through the grimoire for examples, anyways ;)) a
> "proper" way to code, getting them in a "good" habit.
> 
> Example:
> 
> VERSION=$SPELL_$VERSION_stable
> 
> This would cause problems, unless the braces are used to explicitly define
> the variable name (I know you know this, this is for those who're reading
> whom do not :)).  So, now the user would be asking why their spell isn't
> working, unless they had learned to do it with the braces, then it would
> look like this:
> 
> VERSION=${SPELL}_${VERSION}_stable
> 
> Which would then assign the correct version information to VERSION.
> 
> So, that is the long reason on why I try to use the braces.  :)
> 
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle
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