Re: unset does not act as expected on namerefs

[Geir Hauge]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:00:45AM -0500, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> # Here we 'unset ref', which actually unsets 'var'. Then, we assign 'var' to
> # 'ref', but since 'ref' is still a nameref, it instead assigns 'var' to 
> 'var'.
> dualbus@hp:~$ unset ref; ref=var; echo "$ref"; declare -p ref
> var
> declare -n ref="var"
> dualbus@hp:~$ declare -p var
> declare -- var="var"

Ah, that explains it! Mystery solved, and no longer surprising behavior.

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Geir Hauge