On 5/2/16 2:59 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
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> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu
> <mailto:chet.ra...@case.edu>> wrote:
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> and this one throws away the nameref attribute:
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> typeset -n foo ; typeset -i foo ; foo=7*6 ; typeset -p foo
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>
> I think it's important to note that the nameref attribute is thrown away at
> the `typeset -i foo' step, which makes some sense since `typeset -n -i'
> does not seem to be valid in ksh.
The issue I'm thinking about currently is whether or not to allow nameref
variables to have numeric (integer) values. bash-4.3 didn't allow those
values to be expanded, but allowed them to be assigned. It doesn't seem
harmful to change the error to assignment time.
Chet
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