On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:26:16AM -0500, Dennis Williamson wrote: > I prefer to avoid using eval by using declare, but declare inside a > function makes the variable local. Wouldn't it be nice to have a > global flag (declare -g) like zsh's typeset -g.
Yeah. It definitely would. (This comes up every once in a while in IRC, too.)