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Re: declare [-+]n behavior on existing (chained) namerefs


From: Piotr Grzybowski
Subject: Re: declare [-+]n behavior on existing (chained) namerefs
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 18:59:26 +0200

On 13 May 2016, at 23:31, Grisha Levit wrote:

> All the behavior inside functions now seems consistent with what is in the 
> docs. But the behavior at global scope still seems strange (sorry if this is 
> still a WIP):
> Each of the following produces different results in global scope and inside a 
> function: [..]

 judging from the comments in declare_internal the behaviour in global scope is 
intentional, while at the same time in function scope, the local variables are 
created unconditionally.
 when I type:

declare -n r=a

I would expect a new variable r with nameref attribute to be created pointing 
to variable of name a, no matter what kind of wicked chains of namerefs Grisha 
created earlier. Concerning 

declare +n r=a

I am not sure, but it would seem as logical to just create a variable r of 
value a.
 After all this is what those command say: declare and assign a variable. If 
you want nameref resolving, declare is not the correct place to do it.
 Both fixes can be easily done in declare_internal, decision being the 
difficult part.

cheers,
pg




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