Bourne shell differences w.r.t functions?
Bruce Balden
balden at van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca
Sun Sep 16 03:15:52 AEST 1990
In article <3693 at segue.segue.com> bruce at segue.segue.com (Bruce Adler) writes:
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>I don't think this is precisely correct. Perhaps you meant that only
>real recursive functions (i.e. a function that invokes itself).
>
Local variables being preserved (and lost) would also defeat the
main purpose of functions and deny them any mechanism to
return more than one result value.
Bruce Balden
balden at wimsey.bc.ca
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