"source" vs "."  Gerard Beekmans gerard at linuxfromscratch.org
Fri Jan 23 20:09:02 PST 2009  > "source" or ".": which one do
you prefer and why?  This is purely a personal preference and a
matter of taste. It's not  based on one being more technically
correct over another.  When there is a choice in the matter, I
prefer to use "source" because I  find it overall easier to read
and interpret.  I think a similar point can be used when naming
variables in scripts and  programs. You can name something $i
because it's easy to type or you can  name it $current_iteration
which is annoying to type over and over  again. To somebody else
reading your code, it's a lot more descriptive  and you can
quicker find out what a script is doing. Or better, what  it's
supposed to be doing but due to a bug it isn't.  If you're
writing scripts or programs for yourself, and you know what a
'dot' does versus 'source' it likely doesn't matter and you may
find  yourself using the dot because it's less to type. If you
mean for your