Re: fail to expand/assigned subshell output into a local variable

["Oleg Verych" <olecom@xxxxxxxxx>]

== 11/8/07, Oleg Verych ==
> == 11/8/07, Mike Frysinger ==
> > this code snippet incorrectly
>
> Why incorrectly? There's no assignments in the `local`.

... in the man page (and i didn't used that `feature' myself);

> It's a built-in, thus word splitting does its job,

thus, double quotes will prevent this...

> and incorrect names, that start with digits and have other than
> alpha-numeric symbols, are syntax errors.
>
> > fails under dash: $ { local f=$(date); } local: 5: 8: bad variable name
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