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The following example... -- snip -- namespace ghatanothoa { typeset -T addme_t=( compound c=( compound -a ar ) function addsomething { nameref container=_.c nameref arr=container.ar # fill local variable with data... compound nelement=( value="$1" value2="$2" ) # ... once done move it into the array typeset -m "arr[${#arr[@]}]=nelement" } ) } function main { .ghatanothoa.addme_t ad ad.addsomething "fish" "in water" ad.addsomething "chicken" "on land" print "${ad}" } set -o nounset main -- snip -- ... should AFAIK print... -- snip -- ( c=( typeset -a ar=( [0]=( value=fish value2='in water' ) [1]=( value=chicken value2='on land' ) ) ) ) -- snip -- ... but ast-ksh.2012-08-13 (ksh93v-) prints this: -- snip -- $ ~/bin/ksh x.sh x.sh[33]: main[26]: ad.addsomething[17]: typeset: ad.c.ar[0]: no parent x.sh[33]: main[27]: ad.addsomething[17]: typeset: ad.c.ar[1]: no parent ( c=( typeset -a ar typeset -a ar ) ) -- snip -- (note that the "-C" attribute from "ar" is gone, too) ... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list ast-developers@research.att.com https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers