On 5/17/16 4:40 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> Multiple variables with the same name are created at the same scope when
> doing assignments to subscripts of nameref variables that point to
> variables that are unset.
>
> |$ unset var; declare -n ref=var; ref[0]=foo $ declare -p ref declare -a
> ref=([0]="foo") |
>
> I think the more reasonable thing would be to create a new array variable
> $var.
I agree. I'll fix this for bash-4.4.
Chet
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