Re: [Help-bash] What was the reason to give declare its name?

[konsolebox]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 8:48 AM, D630 <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have been reading a lot about early shell history these days. Can you
> remeber, how the built-in command 'declare' got its name? What was the
> rationale behind it?

I'm more interested to know why `declare` was made to declare
variables in the local context by default, when there's already the
`local` builtin. Was it because it was meant to remain compatible with
`typeset`? And even if `local` was added later (if it was added
later), I think it was still early enough for `declare` to be able to
change behavior.  We could have enjoyed global declaration of
associative arrays as early as 4.0.

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konsolebox