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

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  Re: [BUG] 'unset' fails silently under specific conditions Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org> - 2018-05-01 23:27 +0100

#14076 — Re: [BUG] 'unset' fails silently under specific conditions

Op 01-05-18 om 19:36 schreef Chet Ramey:
> OK, so which is it? Does an assignment statement preceding a special
> builtin in a shell function create a local variable (as we discussed
> just yesterday)

Huh? That was about 'typeset'/'declare'. How is that relevant here?

>  or does it create a global variable because `Posix'?

Yes. POSIX does not specify local variables at all, and even in a bash 
context I see nothing there to indicate that it should be local.

The possibility that 'foo=bar :' might create a variable 'foo' that 
survives the ':' command, is exported, *and* is local to the function, 
hadn't occurred to me at all. POSIX is pretty strange sometimes but not 
*this* strange.

- M.

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