Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > gnu.bash.bug > #11749

Inconsistency in the handling of variables inside a function when using a tempenv variable

Show all headers | View raw

I found this some time ago, but didn't report it because I couldn't come up
with a patch:

dualbus@hp ~ % for sh in bash mksh zsh ksh93 dash; do $sh -c 't=${KSH_VERSION+typeset}; f() { x=3; ${t:-local} x; echo $x; }; [ "$(f)" = "$(x=4 f)" ]'; echo $sh $?; done
bash 1
mksh 0
zsh 0
ksh93 0
dash 0

dualbus@hp ~ % bash -xc 'f() { x=3; local x; echo $x; }; f; x=4 f'                                     
+ f
+ x=3
+ local x
+ echo

+ x=4
+ f
+ x=3
+ local x
+ echo 3
3

I'm putting it here so I don't forget about it.

Bash is the only one that handles this: tmpenv - global - local variable chain
in that way.

-- 
Eduardo Bustamante
https://dualbus.me/

Back to gnu.bash.bug | Previous | Next | Find similar

Thread

Inconsistency in the handling of variables inside a function when using a tempenv variable Eduardo A. Bustamante López <dualbus@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 17:34 -0500

csiph-web