From: Chet Ramey Subject: Re: The "asort" extension (Was: feature proposal: expand associative arrays in lexicographic order ...) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:30:48 -0400
>On 8/26/26 9:43 AM, Zachary Santer wrote: >That's a pretty high implementation and maintenance cost, not to mention >a potential run-time cost, for a feature that historically no one has >requested. *Somebody* must have requested it, or else the "asort" extension (the subject of this thread) would never have been dreamed up and/or implemented. Surely, the need for traversing a bash associative array in alphabetical order (or something like that) is not *that* new or novel. I myself discussed this with you (over email) a few years back - which is what led to my creating the idiom that I posted earlier (because the asort extension didn't make any sense to me). ================================================================================= Please do not send me replies to my posts on the list. I always read the replies via the web archive, so CC'ing to me is unnecessary. When responding to my posts, please try to refrain from giving bureaucratic answers. If you have nothing useful to say, then just click Next and go on. BTW, ain't interested in kludgey workarounds - got enough of my own! (YT id: 6H1lcubN0oE)
