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Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:11:57 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <26170-1678007435.186071@mDq6.Euc0.bAwZ> In-Reply-To: From: Bart Schaefer Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2023 13:11:46 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Extended ksh compatibility: namespace parameter syntax To: Sebastian Gniazdowski Cc: Zsh hackers list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Seq: 51506 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-workers@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-workers-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-workers-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 12:20=E2=80=AFPM Bart Schaefer wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 1:57=E2=80=AFAM Sebastian Gniazdowski > wrote: > > > > I wonder, how far is this from supporting a nested arrays? Like arr[2][= 3] or assoc[a][c]? > > It's exactly as far as it has always been. The other unanswered question is, to what does arr[2] expand when arr[2][3] is also an array? That is, when you have to subscript 3+ times to reach a scalar? There's no convenient text representation of array-of-array; do we just throw an error if there are too few levels of dereference?