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Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local |
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Mon, 03 May 2010 08:57:58 -0400 |
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On 5/3/10 8:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:26:16AM -0500, Dennis Williamson wrote:
>> I prefer to avoid using eval by using declare, but declare inside a
>> function makes the variable local. Wouldn't it be nice to have a
>> global flag (declare -g) like zsh's typeset -g.
>
> Yeah. It definitely would. (This comes up every once in a while in
> IRC, too.)
I am planning a feature like this for a future release. It may end up
in bash-4.2.
Chet
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- Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local, (continued)
- Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local, Dennis Williamson, 2010/05/01
- Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local, Freddy Vulto, 2010/05/02
- Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local, Dennis Williamson, 2010/05/02
- Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local, Freddy Vulto, 2010/05/03
- Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local, Freddy Vulto, 2010/05/04
- Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local, Chet Ramey, 2010/05/05
- Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local, Chet Ramey, 2010/05/04
- Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local, Chet Ramey, 2010/05/02
- Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local, Matthew Woehlke, 2010/05/03
Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local, Greg Wooledge, 2010/05/03
Re: Passing variables by reference conflicts with local, Marc Herbert, 2010/05/04