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Re: unset does not act as expected on namerefs
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Shawn Wilson |
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Re: unset does not act as expected on namerefs |
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Tue, 2 Jun 2015 11:16:27 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.22+19 (8f62001989cc) (2013-10-16) |
On +2015/06/02 08:31:57, Greg Wooledge wrote:
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> > Also, whatever happens, I think there should also be a way to test
> > for variable type (either another test flag or something like perl's
> > ref() ).
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> Bash is not a strongly typed language. You've got strings, and indexed
> arrays, and associative arrays. That's all. (There's declare -i, but
> no sane person USES that, so we can ignore it.)
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> You might be trying to do things that Bash is simply not designed to do.
> It's a shell.
I would argue that a nameref is a variable type.
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