Re: Some Special Array Variables Only Kind Of Initialized

2014-01-12 Thread John R. Graham
On 01/11/2014 06:18 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: You don't want the value generated in all cases. This has an effect on some variables: RANDOM, for example. I believe the current behavior is preferable. I guess I don't understand why returning stale values for the dynamic variables under any circum

Re: Some Special Array Variables Only Kind Of Initialized

2014-01-11 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/11/14, 5:54 PM, John R. Graham wrote: > On 01/11/2014 04:55 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: >> On 1/10/14, 6:06 PM, John R. Graham wrote: >>> Some of the automagically created special array variables (GROUPS and >>> DIRSTACK for soer; perhaps others) appear to not be fully initialized. >>> Their values

Re: Some Special Array Variables Only Kind Of Initialized

2014-01-11 Thread John R. Graham
On 01/11/2014 04:55 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: On 1/10/14, 6:06 PM, John R. Graham wrote: Some of the automagically created special array variables (GROUPS and DIRSTACK for soer; perhaps others) appear to not be fully initialized. Their values don't appear correctly in some corner cases until they'

Re: Some Special Array Variables Only Kind Of Initialized

2014-01-11 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/10/14, 6:06 PM, John R. Graham wrote: > Some of the automagically created special array variables (GROUPS and > DIRSTACK for soer; perhaps others) appear to not be fully initialized. Their > values don't appear correctly in some corner cases until they've been > referenced with parameter ex