Re: [bug-gawk] 2 questions

[Aharon Robbins]

Hello.

> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 19:09:14 +0200
> Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] 2 questions
> From: Denis Shirokov <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> *get astonished - it's just amazing!
>
> But before doing that i also should do:
>
> if ( isarray(p2) )

Or rather,

        if (! isarray(p2) )

> - together it will be 3-length-if checking that p2 is not present as
> the parameter
>
> Actually total parameter list counter will be much more effective. i
> want to implement that feature in own gawk-source parser.

Be my guest.  I don't intend to implement such a feature though.

> Q3:
> Why gawk documentation at
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html haven't any words
> about possibility of using local arrays in function body?

This seems to be a simple oversight that I will have to fix. Thank
you for reporting it.

Arnold