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Re: uppercase inheritance

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From: Nemeth Ervin <airwin@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Norman.Azadian@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: uppercase inheritance
Date: 10 Dec 1999 16:47:02 +0100
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>>>>> Norman Azadian writes:

> I've tried this under version 3.1.6 (on HP-UX version 11.0):
> 	= typeset -u -x aaa=bbb
> 	= echo $aaa
> 	BBB
> 	= zsh
> 	= echo $aaa
> 	bbb
> 	=

Yes, I had the same problems, and though I'm not a zsh-developer, I think I
know why this happens: typeset automatically localizes your variable, and at
least in 3.0.x I haven't found any workaround for this problem.

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