Re:Become Shell Literate
by dragonwriter on Saturday December 12, 2020 @02:57PM
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> In what other programming language can you put spaces in variable names?
ISTR that many dynamic languages allow this with dynamic assignment features, but you often need to use similar dynamic access functiona rather than simple variable access to access them.
Ruby also allows whitespace if it is unicode but not ASCII whitespace, without use of dynamic assignment/access methods.
SQL allows spaces in object names but requires quoting, similar to shell.
ISTR that many dynamic languages allow this with dynamic assignment features, but you often need to use similar dynamic access functiona rather than simple variable access to access them.
Ruby also allows whitespace if it is unicode but not ASCII whitespace, without use of dynamic assignment/access methods.
SQL allows spaces in object names but requires quoting, similar to shell.