Re: two mysteries

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 11/07/2015 09:19 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Nov 7,  7:19am, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> } I think where I went off the rails is that this was part of  my trying
> } to pass arrays (as we discussed) rather than flocks of independent
> } values [...]
> }
> } ... and (so far) I don't know how to typeset an element of an array so
>
> You can't typeset an element of an array.  Array elements (including
> associative array elements) are presently always scalar.

That's my understanding.
>    There is
> some room in the implementation for associative array elements to be
> differently-typed, but arrays are stored internally as literal (char**).
>
> Incidentally "typeset -i -A foo" is not rejected as an error, but the -i
> flag always wins and you get an integer rather than an array.

Yeah, I tried that and got a rude surprise. Shouldn't it be an error? So 
it boils down to using $(( )) to make sure things are correct.  There 
were bound to be pitfalls trying to convert the whole data show to 
arrays, but it was educational and I think probably the right thing for 
organizational reasons.  It didn't hurt speed.  zsh with Cish data 
handling would be an awesome thing.
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