On 5/4/16 3:37 PM, Piotr Grzybowski wrote:
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> On 4 May 2016, at 17:51, Chet Ramey wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> I vote for error at assignment, whats the point of allowing pointless
> assignment?
No reason, except for minimal backwards compatibility. I'm leaning towards
that position myself.
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