On 4/9/21 12:20 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:
That said, the fact that you can put 'a[@]' in an indirect variable and
get an array expansion out of "${!x}" is completely repulsive to me.
Currently, we need to write as «iref='a[$key]'; echo "${!iref}"» so
that $key is not expanded until the referenc
On 4/6/21 12:46 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:
Looking at another thread
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2021-04/threads.html#00051,
I'm now also interested in how we can handle the indirect expansions
for 'a[@]' and the namerefs for 'a[@]':
$ declare -A a=(['@']=x [1]=y)
$
$ # indirect e
On 4/6/21 12:46 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:
How about the cases with `test -v a[@]' and `key=@; test -v a[$key]'?
By the time test sees its arguments, there is no difference between these
two cases. You can do things to differentiate when running the `[['
command, but `test' goes through the enti
