From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: uninvited members of associative array
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 12:49:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7a-u3Nh8D++C1QXgupBmNAQsE2XAqVHgR0hkOqLSn_QGw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c606231-ae9c-a7cc-8e35-e018ccead14e@eastlink.ca>
On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 12:31 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> I don't understand
> the difference between '-A' and '+A' maybe that's part of it
The difficulty here (unfortunately) is that "-A" doesn't always mean
the same thing.
"typeset -a" means a normal array and "typeset -A" (or "local" in
either case) means an associative array.
"set -a" was taken (short for "setopt ALL_EXPORT" from sh
compatibility) so "set -A" means "assign to array" where "array" may
be either normal or associative. But if the array doesn't already
exist, it is implicitly created as a normal array. So you must
pre-declare names with "local -A" or similar if you want them treated
as associative.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-17 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-15 23:48 Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 0:05 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-16 0:48 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 1:29 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-16 2:09 ` Dominik Vogt
2022-12-16 2:56 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 3:21 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-16 4:16 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 10:05 ` Dominik Vogt
2022-12-16 14:13 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 15:19 ` Dominik Vogt
2022-12-16 19:14 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 16:30 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-16 18:21 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 19:04 ` Dominik Vogt
2022-12-16 20:10 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 21:15 ` Dominik Vogt
2022-12-16 21:33 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-16 21:59 ` Dominik Vogt
2022-12-16 22:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-16 23:33 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-17 12:47 ` Pier Paolo Grassi
2022-12-17 17:32 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-17 18:10 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-17 18:19 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-17 20:31 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-17 20:49 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2022-12-17 21:07 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-17 21:52 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-17 22:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-17 23:41 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-18 0:15 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-18 0:25 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-18 2:13 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-18 20:12 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-18 20:26 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-18 20:41 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-18 3:44 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-17 23:25 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-16 21:33 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 20:25 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-16 21:43 ` Dominik Vogt
2022-12-16 3:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-16 4:15 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 8:12 ` Roman Perepelitsa
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