Re: variable name and its' value are the same characters causes recursion error

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:18:26AM +0800, Clark J. Wang wrote:
> Actually I don't like the recursion here. Does POSIX require that?
> 
> > For example:
> >
> > unset a; declare a="a"; [[ a -lt 3 ]]; echo $?
> > bash: [[: a: expression recursion level exceeded (error token is "a")
> > 1

POSIX doesn't even have a [[ command.  This is all bash.