On 8/11/16 5:10 PM, Piotr Grzybowski wrote:

>  I personally believe that we should make this change (of course not before 
> 4.4 ;-)), and that it should follow the global nameref chain.
>  The patch (not breaking the test suite) follows.

The problem with this fix, and part of what makes the situation complex, is
that bash uses dynamic variable scoping.  This solution would work if bash
had static scoping.

Chet


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