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Re: Important discussion about "local" on the POSIX list

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From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@xxxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Important discussion about "local" on the POSIX list
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:51:16 -0400
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On 10/16/13 8:27 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> austin-group is discussing a proposal to make local variables
> lexical/static in scope, rather than dynamic in scope as in bash and
> zsh.

I will object to any change that requires static scoping.  At worst,
scoping rules will be undefined.

Chet

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