Was "Is the number of elements in an array tracked internally?" in
help-b...@gnu.org.
The for loop would assign multiple words to names for each loop iteration.
On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM Koichi Murase <myoga.mur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2025年4月27日(日) 1:40 Lawrence Velázquez <v...@larryv.me>:
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2025, at 11:38 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM Zachary Santer <zsan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> for arg4 arg5 arg6 in "${args4__args5__args6[@]}"; do
> > >> [...]
> > >> done
> > >
> > > On the other hand, "in" could no longer appear as *name* in this
> > > formulation of the for loop. I rescind my not really a feature
> > > request.
> >
> > FWIW zsh provides this form, with the restriction that "in" is only
> > recognized as a name if it appears immediately after "for".
>
> I remember that there was a similar discussion:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2021-08/msg00098.html
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2021-08/msg00099.html
You can add me to the list of people who would have uses for this in bash.
Zack
