RE: AllowRedefinitionOf

[Frank Smith]

--On Friday, February 28, 2003 17:18:00 -0600 "Luke A. Kanies" 
<luke@madstop.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Andrews, Martin wrote:
>
> > I got the same problem on my system .... but replacing all instances of
> > "test" with "foo_bar" did not have the same problem. Go figure.
>
> Wow!  That sure seems like a bug, but adding an underscore to the variable
> name fixed it!
>
> Okay, changed the variable name, and looks like the problem is gone.
> Crazy, but good eye on noticing that difference. :)
>
> Mark, any idea on this discrepancy?  You can redefine variables with
> underscores, but not without?

Using 'test' as a shell variable name can cause unexpected results since it is
usually a shell builtin command and/or a system command and will often get 
parsed
as a command instead of a variable.

Frank