On Tuesday 15 February 2011 10:40:31 weakish wrote: > According to man dash: > > When a variable is made local, it inherits the initial value and > exported and readonly flags from the variable with the same > name in the surrounding scope, if there is one. > > Why does dash implement this feature? I guess sinec local is not specified > by POSIX, there isn't any history issues here.
Why do you consider it a bug? policy specifically says: > * `local' to create a scoped variable must be supported, including > listing multiple variables in a single local command and > assigning a value to a variable at the same time as localizing > it. `local' may or may not preserve the variable value from an > outer scope if no assignment is present. It's simply an unspecified behaviour, just initialize it to the empty value. E.g. local x= Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
