A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=767 ====================================================================== Reported By: dwheeler Assigned To: ajosey ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 Issue ID: 767 Category: Shell and Utilities Type: Enhancement Request Severity: Objection Priority: normal Status: Under Review Name: David A. Wheeler Organization: User Reference: Section: XCU 2.14 (local) Page Number: 2374 Line Number: 75650 Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2013-10-11 02:02 UTC Last Modified: 2017-05-23 14:32 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: Add built-in "local" ====================================================================== Relationships ID Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- related to 0000771 Expose alternate shell function usage t... related to 0000465 is the list of special built-ins exhaus... related to 0001025 set description contains counterproduct... ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0003722) chet_ramey (reporter) - 2017-05-23 14:32 http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=767#c3722 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=767#c3713 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Re: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=767#c3712 > > See also http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=767#c3711 > > "local" just installs the attribute "pushed" to a variable. > > Why should this operation change the value of an existing variable. I think that's a really good summary of the question. Is a local variable really a variable from the calling scope with another attribute, and some other bookkeeping information to support dynamic scoping, added, or is it a new object with the same name as the old? Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2013-10-11 02:02 dwheeler New Issue 2013-10-11 02:02 dwheeler Status New => Under Review 2013-10-11 02:02 dwheeler Assigned To => ajosey 2013-10-11 02:02 dwheeler Name => David A. Wheeler 2013-10-11 02:02 dwheeler Section => XCU 2.14 (local) 2013-10-11 02:02 dwheeler Page Number => 2374 2013-10-11 02:02 dwheeler Line Number => 75650 2013-10-11 08:31 geoffclare Relationship added related to 0000465 2013-10-15 22:47 dwheeler Note Added: 0001912 2013-10-17 05:52 ranjit Note Added: 0001924 2013-10-20 05:00 shware_systems Note Added: 0001937 2013-11-14 16:08 geoffclare Relationship added related to 0000771 2015-04-23 23:12 emaste Issue Monitored: emaste 2016-07-05 09:35 joerg Note Added: 0003285 2016-12-01 16:51 eblake Relationship added related to 0001025 2017-05-19 21:39 mirabilos Note Added: 0003699 2017-05-19 22:12 stephane Note Added: 0003701 2017-05-22 11:19 joerg Note Added: 0003702 2017-05-22 11:20 joerg Note Edited: 0003702 2017-05-22 11:20 joerg Note Edited: 0003702 2017-05-22 11:21 joerg Note Edited: 0003702 2017-05-22 19:38 stephane Note Added: 0003703 2017-05-22 23:06 shware_systems Note Added: 0003704 2017-05-23 03:41 kre Note Added: 0003705 2017-05-23 10:47 shware_systems Note Added: 0003706 2017-05-23 11:07 shware_systems Note Edited: 0003706 2017-05-23 12:06 stephane Note Added: 0003707 2017-05-23 13:08 joerg Note Added: 0003708 2017-05-23 13:18 joerg Note Added: 0003709 2017-05-23 13:19 joerg Note Edited: 0003709 2017-05-23 13:41 chet_ramey Note Added: 0003710 2017-05-23 13:47 joerg Note Added: 0003711 2017-05-23 13:47 chet_ramey Note Added: 0003712 2017-05-23 13:51 joerg Note Added: 0003713 2017-05-23 14:00 chet_ramey Note Added: 0003714 2017-05-23 14:05 chet_ramey Note Added: 0003715 2017-05-23 14:11 stephane Note Added: 0003716 2017-05-23 14:14 chet_ramey Note Added: 0003717 2017-05-23 14:17 joerg Note Added: 0003718 2017-05-23 14:19 stephane Note Added: 0003719 2017-05-23 14:26 chet_ramey Note Added: 0003720 2017-05-23 14:29 chet_ramey Note Added: 0003721 2017-05-23 14:32 chet_ramey Note Added: 0003722 ======================================================================
