On 5/2/16 4:01 PM, Dan Douglas wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Grisha Levit <grishale...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: >>> >>> and this one throws away the nameref attribute: >>> >>> typeset -n foo ; typeset -i foo ; foo=7*6 ; typeset -p foo >> >> >> I think it's important to note that the nameref attribute is thrown away at >> the `typeset -i foo' step, which makes some sense since `typeset -n -i' does >> not seem to be valid in ksh. > > ksh93 stores integer variables as actual integers internally so > there's no opportunity for storing the expression, and the nameref > attribute just wouldn't make sense.
I know. I'm surprised there's no warning. -- ``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/