Re: [BUG] 'unset' fails silently under specific conditions

[Martijn Dekker]

Op 02-05-18 om 15:38 schreef Greg Wooledge:
> *NOW* there's evidence of a local variable, because unset removes it
> and exposes the global.

Right. That's what triggered my initial report, in which I confused that 
phenomenon for a failure of the 'unset' command to unset the variable.

>   But it's not "permanently exported" as far as  I can see.

Sorry for the inexact use of language -- I simply meant that the global 
scope of the variable acquired the export flag, as opposed to the 
function-local scope.

- M.