On 2/26/18 11:34 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
> I believe that most shells that implement local (which is most shells)
> implement unset of a local as meaning the local var becomes unset,
> not that it vanishes and the global reappears.
That was the objection: that unset in a function unset the local instance
of the variable, and left the global instance in place.
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