Re: add a way to declare global variables

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/12/09 5:28 AM, Bernd Eggink wrote:
> Am 10.12.2009 10:40, schrieb konsolebox:
> 
>> I hope the development team will also consider adding a way in bash to
>> declare global variables inside a function perhaps either with an
>> option in typeset or declare like -g (same as zsh) and/or a builtin
>> function like global as similar to local.
> 
> I second that. I'm missing this feature badly. Presently, you can only
> get around this restriction by using a lot of ugly and dangerous 'eval's.

OK.  I'm interested in use cases for this feature.  What are you trying
to do that you're missing it "badly?"

Chet


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