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Re: nameref in temp environment
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: nameref in temp environment |
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Mon, 16 May 2016 15:35:16 -0400 |
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On 5/12/16 8:58 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> The 20160506 snapshot changes assign_in_env to do some nameref-related
> checks on the variable name, but these don’t really seem to make sense
> since assignments in the temporary env just create regular variables and
> don’t follow the nameref chain otherwise.
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> i.e. bash doesn’t actually care that |ref| is a nameref at the outer scope
> for the purposes of creating the temp env:
It should, for compatibility; ksh93 follows the nameref at least for
temporary assignments preceding builtins. I'll look further when I have
a block of time.
Chet
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