On 7/23/15 6:52 PM, isabella parakiss wrote: > > No. Don't minimize this, it's not only about BASH_REMATCH.
OK. You did, however, spend an entire message on it. > The fact that a certain special variable is readonly for no real reason > doesn't change this absurd nonsense about any other global variable. Here's the thing: readonly is a rarely-used feature compared to most others. There are not a lot of readonly variables, and I'm asserting that script authors mark variables as readonly for a reason. It's worthwhile to figure out why a variable is readonly and see if you're circumventing the author's intent by shadowing it. In the case of BASH_REMATCH, I explained why it is readonly. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/