Re: inconsistency with "readonly" and scope

[Andreas Schwab]

Maarten Billemont <lhunath@lyndir.com> writes:

> On 15 Apr 2012, at 03:21, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> 
>> If I declare a variable readonly at global scope, I wouldn't expect it
>> to be overridden by some local namespace pollution.
>
> I think that's fine; in the local context, your variable has a
> different meaning; it's another variable with the same name.

If the variable is exported the local variable overrides the exported
value.

Andreas.

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