On 3/20/17 4:29 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
>> I believe he means the behavior of `a=0; a=1 eval unset a', which Posix
>> implicitly requires affect the global scope and results in a being unset
>> when the statement completes.
> [...]
>
> See also:
>
> $ bash -c 'f() { unset a; echo "$a";}; a=1; a=2 f'
> 1
>
> already mentioned.
A distinction without a difference; the behavior is explicitly the same.
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