Re: feature request: ${@ command; } and ${* command; } funsubs to expand to all elements of the local array REPLY

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/2/26 1:54 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:

$ printf '%s\n' "${| REPLY=( zero one two ); }"
zero
$ printf '%s\n' "${@ REPLY=( zero one two ); }"
zero
one
two
$ printf '%s\n' "${* REPLY=( zero one two ); }"
zero one two

Like the ${| command; } form, REPLY within the funsub starts life as
an initially-unset local variable, not an initially empty indexed
array variable. That way, REPLY can become either an indexed or
associative array within the funsub.

Thanks for the proposal. I'll look at it for a future version.

Chet

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