Aw: Re: currently doable? Indirect notation used w/a hash

[John Kearney]

   Like I said its a back door aproach, it circumvents the parser. which
   doesn't allow this syntax
   ${${Name}[1]}
   I didn't actually find this myself it was reproted on this list a long
   time ago. I do remember Chet saying he wouldn't break it. But other
   than that I can't remember the discussion all that well. As always with
   this topic it was a pretty lively debate.


   Yhea its a constant fight getting my email clients to stop
   capitialising various things in code.

   Gesendet: Montag, 17. Juni 2013 um 13:57 Uhr
   Von: "Greg Wooledge" <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
   An: "Linda Walsh" <bash@tlinx.org>
   Cc: "John Kearney" <dethrophes@web.de>, bug-bash <bug-bash@gnu.org>
   Betreff: Re: currently doable? Indirect notation used w/a hash
   On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 12:36:22PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
   > John Kearney wrote:
   > >There is also a backdoor approach that I don't really advise.
   > >val="${ArrayName}[Index]"
   > >echo "${!val}"
   > -----
   > Don't advise? Any particular reason? or stylistic?
   I'd shared this advice ("don't use it"), because I cannot for the
   life of me tell whether this is a bug or a feature. As near as I
   can tell, it is an unforeseen consequence of the parser implementation,
   not documented anywhere. As such, I would not rely on it to continue
   working in future Bash releases.
   P.S. you meant printf -v, not -V.