Re: Somewhat unexpected results of {myfd}>&1 when noclobber set

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Mar 10,  1:11pm, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
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} On 9 March 2013 16:12, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
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} >     integer bar=1+1
} >     print something >&$bar
} 
} Well, this 1+1 is evaluated when you assign to bar, not when you do >&$bar...
} (not ignoring the rest of the message, just replying to this part for now).
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} % foo=1+1
} % echo $foo
} 1+1
} % print something >&$foo
} 
} results in the file 1+1 being created with contents 'something'.

You missed the very important "integer" declaration.  If you change your
test to begin

% integer foo=1+1

you will get a very different result.  Because the variables created with
{foo}>& are implicitly given integer type, you have to try >&$foo with an
integer foo, not an ordinary scalar foo.