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`test -R' not working


From: NBaH
Subject: `test -R' not working
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 22:50:32 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131103 Icedove/17.0.10

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Rompilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='unknown' -DLOCALEDIR='/home/nbah/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash'
+-DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib   -g -O2
uname output: Linux diocletien 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Machine Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Bash Version: 4.3
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release

Description:

$ var="foo bar"
$ declare -n nameref=var
$ echo "${!nameref} = $nameref"
var = foo bar
$ test -R nameref && echo ok || echo ko
bash: test: -R: unary operator expected
ko


Repeat-By:

$ test -R "nameref" && echo ok || echo ko
bash: test: -R: unary operator expected
ko



I hope I don't miss anything.

TIA


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