On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 07:01:18AM +1000, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> [...] and treating "unset" as a fatal error is not the experience that
> programmers have using other scripting languages, and is therefore, I would
> argue, not something that should be added to the Shell, and certainly not
> as a
(I assume this is a continuation of the discussion in #bash on Libera.chat
yesterday?)
The primary use of `set -u` is to detect misspelled variable names, and
misspelled keys for associative arrays seems like a reasonable extension of
that, if you assume that they're in some sense a fixed list,
I just realised I expressed an opinion about associative arrays while the
original post was about indexed arrays.
My take on this is that indexed arrays are almost always "dynamic"; while
it's possible to use constant indices to emulate a struct, that is unusual.
For most purposes the flexibility
On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 09:27:17AM +1000, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> I just realised I expressed an opinion about associative arrays while the
> original post was about indexed arrays.
>
I simply reported that, specifically in arithmetic contexts, when using
a variable (not as the lhs of an =
On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 3:07 PM Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> On 5/18/23 7:51 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
>
> > Apparently, in bash, if the code is running in a (shell) loop (like inside
> > a while, or similar, loop) then each iteration around the loop, any jobs
> > that
> > have exited, but not been cleaned
