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#   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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#
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#   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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#
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#
foo()
{
	declare -A afoo=([six]="six" [foo bar]="foo quux")

	declare -A
	recho inside: "${afoo[@]}"
}

declare -A afoo=([main]=outside)
echo outside: "${afoo[@]}"

foo

echo outside 2: "${afoo[@]}"