Re: Incorrect / Inconsistent behavior with nameref assignments in functions

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/28/20 4:56 AM, Binarus wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 12
> Release Status: release
> 
> 
> Description:
> ------------
> 
> Under certain circumstances, assignments of namerefs to local variables
> in functions behaves in a way which makes namerefs completely useless.
> Furthermore, the behavior is not consistent.

There is an order of evaluation problem as explained later in the thread,
not specific to namerefs. It's fixed in bash-5.1.

The underlying issue is making `declare [options] foo=bar' expand the
argument like an assignment statement as POSIX specifies. This makes
`declare' more like a hybrid reserved word instead of a builtin. In some
cases, the options matter and affect how the argument gets expanded. You
end up having to do something like `declare [options] foo; foo=bar' to get
the expansion right, but that introduces several corner cases.

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