Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/3/10 8:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:26:16AM -0500, Dennis Williamson wrote:
>> I prefer to avoid using eval by using declare, but declare inside a
>> function makes the variable local. Wouldn't it be nice to have a
>> global flag (declare -g) like zsh's typeset -g.
> 
> Yeah.  It definitely would.  (This comes up every once in a while in
> IRC, too.)

I am planning a feature like this for a future release.  It may end up
in bash-4.2.

Chet
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