On 8/18/11 11:58 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> It would appear "declare -g" does NOT allow you to "jump over" a local
> variable that is shadowing a global. That's disappointing.
That is not its intent. The very narrow purpose of declare -g is to
allow you to declare a variable with attributes in a function without
the variable becoming local. It doesn't change variable scoping rules
or variable name resolution behavior.
Chet
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