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. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/