On 3/8/18 2:51 PM, GreatBigDot wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 19
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       If you try to turn a nameref back a regular variable with
> 'declare -n' but the nameref is pointing to an undeclared variable, the
> nameref remains a nameref, and the variable it points to is declared
> (but remians unset).

Thanks for the report. This is a bug: the code neglected to remove the
nameref attribute from `foo' before tying to modify the attributes of the
referenced variable (`bar'). It will be fixed in the next devel snapshot.

Chet
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    c...@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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