Re: "unset var" pops var off variable stack instead of unsetting it

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/20/17 4:29 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:

>> I believe he means the behavior of `a=0; a=1 eval unset a', which Posix
>> implicitly requires affect the global scope and results in a being unset
>> when the statement completes.
> [...]
> 
> See also:
> 
> $ bash -c 'f() { unset a; echo "$a";}; a=1; a=2 f'
> 1
> 
> already mentioned.

A distinction without a difference; the behavior is explicitly the same.

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