Subject: Re: [ast-users] Number of elements for declaring an indexed array via
'typeset pbargs[]' vs. 'typeset -a pbargs' ?
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> Hi!
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> Where is the difference between the following two array declarations:
> -- snip --
> ksh93 -c 'typeset pbargs[] ; print ${#pbar...@]}'
> 1
> $ ksh93 -c 'typeset -a pbargs ; print
> ${#pbar...@]}'
>
>
> 0
> -- snip --
>
> Somehow it looks for the first form ('typeset pbargs[]') some kind of
> "hidden" empty array element gets created - is this a bug or a feature ?
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> Bye,
> Roland
>
I should probably treat foo[] as a syntax error.
David Korn
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