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Subject: RE: Nasty bug in array-element typeset assignments 
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:57:58 +0400
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>
> Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > > "Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> > > >         local 'foo[1]'=X
> > >
> > > Is this supposed to be supported?  I certainly haven't done
> anything about
> > > it.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, recent changes has enabled it.
>
> Yuk.  Whoever decided on this has got a job on their hands.
>

Actually, I suspect it is a side effect of subscript quoting cleanup. I do
not see any real changes in bin_typeset that are aimed at the above - but I
suspect that 'foo[1]' was not treated as array subscript before.

BTW it is allowed in 4.0.2, I do not have earlier versions here readily
available. May be, it was always possible?

-andrej