On 4/25/20 2:55 AM, andrej--- via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again
SHell wrote:
> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 16
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> While looking for a way to share a "cache" array with a recursive function
> call stack (using local -n (nameref)), I hit a well-known problem with
> "circular name reference" (which has been around for a long time).
Yes, that's how it does loop detection.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
