From: Wolfgang Hukriede <whukriede@ifm.uni-kiel.de>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: bug in select
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 04:37:24 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199612300337.EAA11748@sally.ifm.uni-kiel.de> (raw)
>> verdy% select i in aaa bbb ccc
>> do echo $i
>> done
>> 1) aaa 2) bbb 3) ccc
>> ?# 1
>> 0
Zoltan wrote:
>Ksh behaves exactly the same way. This is not a bug. Add unset i before
>select and it'll work. Note that i becomes integer if it is initialised
>first in an arithmetic expression, like let i=0 or $((i=0)).
Yes, and in the same spirit:
zsh> i="something"; echo $i
0
etc. (If the variable is by any accident integer.) That's hazard. The shell
should print out a message, imo. These are type errors.
Wolfgang.
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