On 5/2/16 2:59 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Chet Ramey <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> and this one throws away the nameref attribute:
>
> typeset -n foo ; typeset -i foo ; foo=7*6 ; typeset -p foo
>
>
> I think it's important to note that the nameref attribute is thrown away at
> the `typeset -i foo' step, which makes some sense since `typeset -n -i'
> does not seem to be valid in ksh.
Yes. It's just that it's undocumented and done without a warning.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/