Re: need ability to tell if array is associative or not - bug?

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 04:45:30PM +0100, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
>     local value='1.0';

> The end result expression being evaluated:
>     ++ my_array=(['value']='1.0')
> should never involve an arithmetic expression,
> and should be valid regardless if the array is
> associative or not .

Your index is "value".  In a non-associative array, the index is
evaluated in a math context.  In a math context, a thing that CAN be
treated as a variable name IS treated as a variable name, and this
treatment is recursive.

So you are using an index of 1.0, and this causes the error message.