On Wednesday, December 27, 2023, Andrew Pennebaker via austin-group-l at The Open Group <austin-group-l@opengroup.org> wrote:
> I am currently using dynamically named variables in order to implement > logical hashmaps in pure, POSIX sh. > Why? The standard hashmap language is AWK and it's available on every POSIX-compliant system. > However, the hacky syntax I am using for this, involves eval commands. > And what's wrong with it? I would like POSIX to introduce standard commands for insert and lookup of > hashmap entries. > Why would POSIX introduce a feature no one implements? > -- Oğuz
