Re: Local variable declaration in loops buglet...

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 4,  4:06pm, Philippe Troin wrote:
}
}   ceramic% foo() { for i in 1 2 3; do local x; x=$i;done }
} 
} Moving the local out of the loop fixes the echo of course... But I do
} not think it should matter.

This is not a bug, it's documented behavior of `typeset' for which
`local' is an alias:

    For each remaining name that refers to a parameter that is set,
    the name and value of the parameter are printed in the form of an
    assignment. Nothing is printed for newly-created parameters, or when
    any attribute flags listed below are given along with the name.

In 4.1.1-dev, you can `setopt typeset_silent' to suppress this.