On 1/5/15 3:14 PM, Poor Yorick wrote: > In the following script, the effect of calling f0 is that the value global $i > is still 5, but the effect of calling f1 is that the value of the global $i is > 9. It's nice to be able to create a function like unlocal that moves local > variables out of the way, but I'm wondering if it can be relied on in future > versions:
This is a consequence of bash's dynamic scoping and the idea that a local variable should stay local if it's unset at the current scope. I don't have any plans to change that. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/