Re: [Bashburn-info] Substantial change to the configure function.

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

I wanted to followup to my previous message about sourcing files from 
within functions. This is sort of a key issue and I'm writing this down as 
much to hammer it into my own skull as much as to impart my pearls to the 
rest of the world.

If you have a variable that is to be considered a global, i.e., everyone 
else (or anyone else) may want to reference it, and that variable is being 
sourced in from a subroutine call, then that variable declaration may not 
be declared with a typeset statement. If you do then the variable will not 
be global. Instead, it will end up as local to the function that sourced 
the file in.


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