Re: declare -A +A

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/12/24 5:24 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:
> 2024年2月13日(火) 6:13 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>:
> > Only for indexed and associative arrays, since those are the attributes
> > that cause changes in the underlying value storage format. That's different
> > than turning the integer attribute on and off, for instance.
> >
> > Should it be an actual error, or should the shell just cancel out the
> > attribute change requests and go on? What do folks think?
>
> I think it can be a usage error; it doesn't do anything on the
> variable (i.e. doesn't make it an associative array) and outputs an
> error message.

I agree; I'll make it a usage error.

--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/