Sorry to carry on a conversation with myself, but I said...
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
[...]
> In bash, you can do:
>
> $ var=value
> $ ref=var
> $ echo ${!ref}
> value
>
> but unfortunately, you cannot do
>
> $ ${!ref}=anothervalue
and after experimenting further, I find that the effect can be obtained
with:
$ eval $ref=other
$ echo $var
other
This is still more like a pointer in C than a reference in C++.
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