On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 5/5/16 6:02 PM, Dan Douglas wrote: >> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 2:46 AM, Piotr Grzybowski <narsil...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> ok, so Dan wants this patch. >> >> Yes I think your bash patch is probably an improvement at least in >> this particular case. >> >>> Maybe you can comment on wether the patches are valid. >> >> The posix export and readonly don't produce locally scoped variables >> at all, so it's expected that e.g. `typeset -x` and `export` will >> differ. > > This is a different topic entirely, since neither of the examples > we're considering take place within a function. Scoping isn't an > issue.
Sure I agree that scope isn't the issue. That's was the main point of my message. I was trying to explain is that ksh does allow -x in combination with pre-existing references in some contexts, but the only way to demonstrate that is by calling a function.
