On 10/20/16 7:44 PM, Jack Kuan wrote:
> Thanks for replying.
>
> I was expecting that in the second iteration of the loop, the
> local var=var_123 command would make var a normal variable again with
> value "var_123"
This is the bad assumption. You didn't unset `var' before doing this, so
it retains its local attribute and its nameref attribute. Trying to make
a local variable from an already-local variable is a no-op.
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