On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:07:31AM -0400, George wrote: > ultimately identified in the nameref also comes from the caller) but the > inconsistency there, of "typeset -n" behaving differently depending on where > the name comes from, is very unappealing to me. I'd much rather see this > behavior activated by an explicit argument to declare, like this: > declare --caller-scope-nameref result_var=$whatever > Or this: > declare -n --scope=caller result_var=$whatever
Or this: upvar "$1" myvar ~50% joking...
