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sr #109948: Feature Request: Add KSH styled namespace support

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Submitted:  Thu 29 Aug 2019 04:47:00 PM UTC
   
 
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Severity:  1 - Wish Status:  Postponed
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Tue 17 Jan 2023 10:16:22 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This might be a candidate for a future version.

Chet Ramey <chet>
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Thu 29 Aug 2019 04:47:00 PM UTC, original submission:  

One of the big issues with writing complex tools in bash is the lack of namespace support, which often leads to variable or function collisions. To avoid this, I'd like Bash to gain something like KSH's namespace support, which allows all identifiers inside the namespace when called externally to use the namespace syntax like so:


# defining our namespace
namespace sub {
  DIR=$(pwd)
}

# setting the DIR var in our own script
DIR=$(pwd)

# reading that dir variable
CHILD_DIR=$.sub.DIR


Note that these are isolated this way to avoid the parent namespace from clobbering the child or vice-versa

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