On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 2:24 AM Grisha Levit <grishale...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe it would be appropriate to reject a request to turn off an > attribute that is being turned on? > Since this seems specific to indexed and associative arrays, it might make more sense to just give the same error you get if you try to unset the attribute later. $ unset assoc array $ assoc='spoon' $ declare -A assoc $ declare -p assoc declare -A assoc=([0]="spoon" ) $ declare +A assoc -bash: declare: assoc: cannot destroy array variables in this way $ array='fork' $ declare -a array $ declare -p array declare -a array=([0]="fork") $ declare +a array -bash: declare: array: cannot destroy array variables in this way
