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Re: An array variable created by export/readonly builtins inside a function becomes a locale variable to that function unexpectedly

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hey,

 this is triggered by (), since the following works as "expected":

bash -c 'foo() { readonly a=1; echo a=$a; }; foo; echo a=$a'

 cheers,
pg


On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 4:18 AM, ziyunfei <446240525@qq.com> wrote:
> $ ksh -c 'foo() { readonly a=(1);echo a=$a; }; foo; echo a=$a'
> a=1
> a=1
> $ bash -c 'foo() { readonly a=(1);echo a=$a; }; foo; echo a=$a' # a becomes a local variable
> a=1
> a=
>
>

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Re: An array variable created by export/readonly builtins inside a function becomes a locale variable to that function unexpectedly Piotr Grzybowski <narsil.pl@gmail.com> - 2015-11-28 10:43 +0100

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