Yang Zhang wrote: > Why does assigning to multiple variables on the same line exhibit > sequential consistency normally but not for local variables?
Because `local' is a command, and word expansion is performed on its arguments before it's invoked. This means the expansion is performed before `local' performs the assignment (local sees two arguments: `a=x' and `b='). Variable assignments by themselves behave differently -- expansion and assignment are done at the same time. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
