Re: array subscripts act differently for integers(ie. let)

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/18/15 4:14 PM, emanuelczirai@cryptolab.net wrote:
> tl;dr: thanks! no reply needed;
> 
> Thanks guys. I had a hard time accepting that this is how it's supposed to
> work.
> I accepted it now. :)

Yeah.  The expression between (( and )) is word expanded, since (( ... ))
is supposed to be exactly equivalent to let "...".

The real issue is that assignment statements in arithmetic expressions
that contain array references are also word expanded, almost as if they
were executed in an assignment statement context.  This is how bash has
always behaved, though; backwards compatibility is a concern.

Chet

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