Re: nameref in temp environment

[Chet Ramey]

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.
> 
> i.e. bash doesn’t actually care that |ref| is a nameref at the outer scope
> for the purposes of creating the temp env:

That's true.  It uses the existing variable for the readonly check and the
existing value to perform an append if desired.  I can see using the
nameref itself for both of those; what do you think?

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