On 7/26/18 3:15 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> It seems that in general the array type is inherited just fine, there is an
> issue only in the case that:
> * the `A' attribute is inherited but not explicitly supplied
> * we are creating the local variable with the `declare' command
> (i.e. it is not already an existing local variable)
> * we are performing a compound assignment/append operation in the
> same declare command
Exactly. Look at the third point. A statement like `declare x+=( [0]=foo)'
means to create a local array variable, since the -A option is not
supplied. Bash is consistent in defaulting to indexed array variables when
you don't specify -A and assign a value using the compound assignment
syntax. So you create a local indexed array variable, and when you attempt
to inherit the value from a global associative array before performing any
specified assignment, you should either ignore the inherited value or throw
an error.
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