Re: Unset array doesn't work

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/26/18 11:34 AM, Robert Elz wrote:

> I believe that most shells that implement local (which is most shells) 
> implement unset of a local as meaning the local var becomes unset,
> not that it vanishes and the global reappears.

That was the objection: that unset in a function unset the local instance
of the variable, and left the global instance in place.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/