Adam Monsen wrote: > I was incorrectly interpreting 'local' to be a modifier rather than a > separate builtin.
It may be that someday. The shell already does a few things to try to make assignment statement arguments to those builtins (local, declare, export, readonly) more like assignment statements preceding a command name -- mostly to avoid double expansion. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash