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

[Dan Douglas]

 $ bash -xc 'declare -i a=(1 x 3)'
+ a=(1 x 3)
+ declare -i a
 $ bash -xc 'declare -i a=x'
+ declare -i a=x

That is how bash treats it, and the reason they differ. There are some useful 
properties to this. Remember arithmetic gets recursive evaluation in Bash so 
"x" is still going to end up evaluating to whatever expression is stored in x. 
If you want, you can force it to behave the other way as shown in my first 
reply.

The primary reason I said it isn't a bug is because this has been discussed on 
the list a few times before and that's been the general consensus.

-- 
Dan Douglas