On 2/26/18 11:34 AM, Robert Elz wrote: > I believe that most shells that implement local (which is most shells) > implement unset of a local as meaning the local var becomes unset, > not that it vanishes and the global reappears.
That was the objection: that unset in a function unset the local instance of the variable, and left the global instance in place. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/