From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Effects of readonly on associative arrays
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 23:24:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <691a5d910805102324l3ae22814o2e1cd0e1c03cd896@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
This is probably my fault somehow, but:
% typeset -a arr
% typeset -r arr
% arr=(a 1)
zsh: read-only variable: arr
% arr[1]=a
zsh: read-only variable: arr
% typeset -A hash
% typeset -r hash
% hash=(a 1)
zsh: read-only variable: hash
% hash[a]=1
% typeset hash
hash=(a 1 )
I have a potential use for this quirk, but it seems like something not
really to be relied upon.
This is probably related to:
% typeset -r hash[a]
typeset: hash[a]: can't create readonly array elements
Furthermore, continuing the above example:
% typeset -a hash
% typeset hash
hash=()
% hash=(a 1)
zsh: readonly variable: hash
As it happens, what I really have use for is a variable whose values
can be changed but whose type cannot. Here we have a situation where
I can effectively erase a read-only variable by changing its type --
which "works" for any non-special readonly variable.
Contrast this with what happens when the readonly variable is a
special parameter:
% userdirs[xxxx]=yyyy
zsh: read-only variable: xxxx
% typeset -a userdirs
zsh: userdirs: can't change type of a special parameter
Aside -- this is a bit strange:
% noglob typeset userdirs[xxxx]
zsh: read-only variable: xxxx
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