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hyperpape on Feb 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Shellcheck: a static analysis tool for shell scrip...

I don't think we know that. We know some notion of lexical scope is valuable, but function only vs block scope seems like an issue of familiarity/style.

ScottBurson on Feb 6, 2015 [–]

Okay, but that doesn't change my point that a single global scope is archaic, and for good reason.

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