Maarten Billemont <lhun...@lyndir.com> writes: > On 15 Apr 2012, at 03:21, Chet Ramey wrote: >> >> If I declare a variable readonly at global scope, I wouldn't expect it >> to be overridden by some local namespace pollution. > > I think that's fine; in the local context, your variable has a > different meaning; it's another variable with the same name.
If the variable is exported the local variable overrides the exported value. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
