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On 11/01/2015 07:08 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> - ${(P)${:-${ref}[idx]}} then treats that substitution as another
>    parameter expansion, and you end up where you wanted to be.
Deus avertat.  But what would prevent this from being parsed?:

${${ref}[idx]}

or even:

${${ref}[$idx]}

... since an expansion can be used in the back end just fine already.
I dunno, but the above seems at least naively straight forward.
Also, that form  works with normal arrays. But if you say it
can't work that way I can't say otherwise, of course.