Re: typeset -r prevents local variable of same name.

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/17/11 12:11 PM, Eric Blake wrote:

> Consensus on today's Austin Group meeting was that since we are
> interested in standardizing local variables (or at least a subset of the
> 'typeset' special built-in's capabilities), this needs to be uniform
> across implementations.  The Austin Group would favor the ability to
> create a local read-write variable that shadows a global read-only
> variable, which would entail a change to this bash behavior.

It's interesting that the group would introduce such different scoping
behavior.  After all, the only separate "scope" the shell has currently
is the set of assignments preceding a command name, and assignments to
readonly variables there are explicitly disallowed.  I'll definitely
have to read the minutes.

Chet

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