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Re: param expansion with single-character special vars in the environmen


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: param expansion with single-character special vars in the environment
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 13:54:34 -0400
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On 4/28/16 5:20 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Piotr Grzybowski <narsil.pl@gmail.com
> <mailto:narsil.pl@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>      b. we can forbid
>        # declare -n T
>        when T is a readonly variable
> 
> 
> This is the one that makes the most sense to me.  It shouldn't however be
> forbidden to do `declare -nr RO=foo' if RO is not already a readonly variable.

Interesting that ksh93 throws a usage error when presented with that (using
typeset, of course).

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