On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 04:45:30PM +0100, Jason Vas Dias wrote: > local value='1.0';
> The end result expression being evaluated: > ++ my_array=(['value']='1.0') > should never involve an arithmetic expression, > and should be valid regardless if the array is > associative or not . Your index is "value". In a non-associative array, the index is evaluated in a math context. In a math context, a thing that CAN be treated as a variable name IS treated as a variable name, and this treatment is recursive. So you are using an index of 1.0, and this causes the error message.
