[ast-developers] Side effect of a reference declaration

[Bernd Eggink]

Declaring a reference to an array element i creates all of the i-1 
preceding elements:

   $ unset a
   $ typeset -n r=a[3]
   $ print ${!a[*]}
   0 1 2
This looks like a bug to me, or is it really intended?

Regards,
Bernd

--
Bernd Eggink
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://sudrala.de
_______________________________________________
ast-developers mailing list
ast-developers@research.att.com
https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers