On 4/20/20 11:16 AM, George Jones wrote:
> No problem. Glad you fixed it. It's been a LONG time since I've
> actually written C, so probably best if someone current did it.
>
> On the parameters, I suggest you consider exposing the at user level as a
> switch or env var. My use case was pathologically large (and would have
> been better on, e.g. Spark if that were and option in the environment).
> Even the old behavior was probably good enough for most people. It's only
> when you start abusing bash to to "big data" that the problem shows up.
I've been considering how to provide a way to let users indicate the size
of an array when they declare it. `declare' accepts `declare -a name[size]'
and `declare -A name[size]' for compatibility with ksh, but has never done
anything with `size'.
I could see allowing a number, or maybe an arithmetic expression, for SIZE
to set the initial size of an associative array. Or maybe an additional
option to `declare' would work better. I don't like using a shell variable
for this.
What does the group think?
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