Adam Monsen wrote:
> I was incorrectly interpreting 'local' to be a modifier rather than a
> separate builtin.
It may be that someday. The shell already does a few things to try to
make assignment statement arguments to those builtins (local, declare,
export, readonly) more like assignment statements preceding a command
name -- mostly to avoid double expansion.
Chet
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