Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, Roger wrote:

> > They still allow you to define constants in all-caps.  The impact it
> > makes is not so different with defining globals as such.  Try Ruby.
>
> The reason I used to prefer using all uppercase/capital letters, the variable
> definitations would stand out similar to C style definition macros.  Variables
> become extremely identifiable and comprehensible.

A text editor, such as emacs in Bash mode, can highlight variables. No
need to use any sort of naming convention.

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