Re: Can not declare a local variable if an global ro-variable exists with the same name

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/27/19 9:06 AM, joergboe@snafu.de wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 46
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       If I declare a global read-only variable and I try to declare a local 
> variable with that name, I can not create
>       the local variable.
>       I expect that local variables can be declared independently for the 
> global variables.

Yes, it's been that way for about as long as bash has had local variables.
The idea is that variables are readonly for a reason, and you shouldn't
just be able to circumvent that with a local variable declaration. It's
similar to the error you get if you try to assign a value to a readonly
variable using an assignment statement that precedes a command.

Chet

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