Re: unset does not act as expected on namerefs

[Shawn Wilson]

On +2015/05/26 18:05:18, Geir Hauge wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:00:45AM -0500, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> > # Here we 'unset ref', which actually unsets 'var'. Then, we assign 'var' to
> > # 'ref', but since 'ref' is still a nameref, it instead assigns 'var' to 
> > 'var'.
> > dualbus@hp:~$ unset ref; ref=var; echo "$ref"; declare -p ref
> > var
> > declare -n ref="var"
> > dualbus@hp:~$ declare -p var
> > declare -- var="var"
> 
> Ah, that explains it! Mystery solved, and no longer surprising behavior.
> 

If there's no good reason to keep this as is (some use case where
this might be wanted and breaking backward compatibility - I can't
see anyone actually *wanting* it this way) shouldn't it be changed?
A behavior can be documented and still be bad.

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