Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] builtins/source: parse the -i option

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/14/24 4:48 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:

> However, at the same time, I think the new option could be justified
> from the viewpoint of language design. If we have a new namespace
> ``BASH_SOURCE_PATH'' for the scripts to be sourced, it would be neat
> to have an option to specify the namespace exclusively.

Should these be the default semantics for BASH_SOURCE_PATH? After all, if
you want to search the current directory, put "." into the value.

> `unset -v var' is not required. 

That was a POSIX invention as a compromise between implementations.

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