Re: [bug-gawk] Access variables not conforming to the variable naming convention?

[Denis Shirokov]

" P.S. Perhaps I should make SYMTAB (and FUNCTAB) read-only. "

please don't do that about SYMTAB :)

*panic

2018-11-29 9:28 GMT+02:00, address@hidden <address@hidden>:
> Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I see that you gawk allows things like "f oo" in SYMTAB.
>
> RTFM, which clearly states that you can also add additional elements
> into SYMTAB and access them like regular array elements. Doing so
> DOES NOT create variables with weird names.
>
> Arnold
>
> P.S. Perhaps I should make SYMTAB (and FUNCTAB) read-only.
>
>