Re: Minor bug declaring arrays of integers: dcl -ai=>broken, dcl -ia=>ok

[Dan Douglas]

On Sunday, July 21, 2013 08:39:29 PM Linda Walsh wrote:
> I don't think so.   Not from the above.
> 
> The first sets up an array outside the function composed of integers,
> so the 2nd time I execute  the same, it gets put through the "integer 
> strainer".
> 
> The bug is that the "-i" isn't applied until after the array assignment
> is done.. which isn't the case for scalars:
> 

That's exactly what I'm saying. This has been discussed on the list before and 
I'm pretty sure Chet knows about it. I wrote about this here over a year ago: 
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/arrays#integer_arrays

I think I even have some code that relies upon this effect.

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Dan Douglas