On 8/10/16 12:06 PM, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 46
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>     When declaring a variable in a function as a nameref, it can not
>     be dereferenced if the variable it's a nameref to happen to have
>     the same name as the nameref itself.  This imposes unnecessary
>     restrictions on the caller.

There was extensive discussion about namerefs on bug-bash earlier this
year.  I have a reasonable suggestion about how to change this behavior,
and I will be looking at it after bash-4.4 is released.

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