Re: bashism question

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>]

ke, 2008-06-25 kello 09:18 +0100, Adam D. Barratt kirjoitti:
> As "foo=bar" is an argument "more complex than simple variables" and
> the 
> example explicitly shows the use of local to declare the variable followed 
> by assignment to it, my reading of policy is that "local foo=bar" is not 
> permitted.

I was afraid of that. It makes using local doubly painful.

(Oh well, I'll add "shell function needs local variables" to my list of
indicators that I should really be writing in Python.)