strange behavior

[Ruud Baart]

Version bash: GNU bash, version 2.05.0(1)-release (i386-suse-linux)
System: SuSE Linux 7.2

Very simple shell script "showlines":
#
# next line makes no difference
#declare -ix COUNTER
#
let COUNTER=0
echo -e "line a\nline b\nline c"|while read LINE
do
   let COUNTER++
   echo "$COUNTER: $LINE"
done
echo "\$COUNTER=$COUNTER"

Results:
bash showlines
1: line a
2: line b
3: line c
$COUNTER=0

However executing the same script with zsh gives a different result
zsh showlines
1: line a
2: line b
3: line c
$COUNTER=3

which makes much more sense to me. Bug?

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