Re: Misleading NEWS for assignment before function

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/10/25 1:12 PM, Ulrich Müller wrote:
> NEWS, bash-5.1, item 1.o. says:
>
> o. Bash posix mode now treats assignment statements preceding shell function
>     definitions the same as in its default mode, since POSIX has changed and
>     no longer requires those assignments to persist after the function returns
>     (POSIX interp 654).
>
> This refers to the following POSIX change, I guess:
> https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=654
>
> IMHO the wording "preceding shell function definitions" is misleading,
> because the assignment precedes the function call, not its definition.

Thanks for the report (from 2020?).

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