On Apr 27 2020, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> So it seems the reserved rule is more accurately:
>
>Reserved words are words that have a special meaning to the
>shell. The following words are recognized as reserved when
>unquoted and either (1) where the first word of a simple co
Date:Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:03:47 -0400
From:wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Message-ID: <87pnbsfjss@hobgoblin.ariadne.com>
| While I was looking at the details of parsing function definitions, I
| tripped on something I should have noticed long ago. In the
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt
-DDEFAULT_PATH_VALUE='/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin'
-DSTANDARD_UTILS_PATH='/usr/bin' -DSYS_BASHRC='/etc/ba
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 08:14:28PM +0200, andrej--- via Bug reports for the GNU
Bourne Again SHell wrote:
> f() { local x=a; }
> declare -r x
> f # bash: local: x: readonly variable
>
> This^^^ should not fail; it hinders reusability of shell functions and makes
> them context-de
