Re: [bug-gawk] fatal: split: second argument is not an array

[Hermann Peifer]

On 2013-03-22 5:21, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> I'm afraid you're misunderstanding. Any reference to a previously
> non-existent element creates it *as a scalar* with an untyped value (which
> acts as the null string or zero). (...)
> This is how awk has worked since The Beginning....

Hi Arnold,

Thanks for the explanations.

My thinking was that in The Beginning, array elements could only be 
scalars, so creating new elements unconditionally as a scalar was fine. 
Nowadays, the situation is somewhat different, as there is the new 
"arrays of arrays" concept. So the rule to create new elements 
unconditionally as a scalar might have to be reconsidered..

My thinking was obviously wrong and in any case, initialising the 
subarray gets me around the issue.

Thanks again for your time,

Hermann

PS (an unrelated issue):
There is a small typo in the NEWS file, which states "This consierably 
reduces..."