That's a follow-up on https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-bash@gnu.org/msg23451.html
Is there anything in the POSIX spec that allows: x[ foo To be interpreted as anything other than invoking the "x[" command with "foo" as argument? I had the vague recollection that there was but I can't find it now. If there's not, that would be a bug in the spec as several shells including ksh, bash, zsh, yash treat it as the start of an array element assignment (like in: x[ foo + 1]=value -- Stephane
