On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:19 PM, lolilolicon <loliloli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 12:20 PM, lolilolicon <loliloli...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Assignment to a subscripted array variable behaves differently for
> > nameref vs `printf -v`, as shown below.
> >
> > Assignment via nameref variable:
> >
> > declare -a arr=()
> > func() {
> > local -n ref=$1
> > ref='nameref'
> > }
> > func 'arr[0]'
> > declare -p 'arr[0]' arr
> >
> > --- output ---
> > declare -- arr[0]="nameref"
> > declare -a arr='()'
>
> It's a damn bug alright. Just curious though, shouldn't assignments to
> via nameref variables re-use the same code as `printf -v`?
>
>
Not sure what makes this bug a damned one, but it's probably because it
re-uses the same code that it doesn't make an extra check and creates this
invalid variable name 'arr[0]'
