Re: bug adding K,V pairs to existing hash with HASH+=([K]=V)

[Greg Wooledge]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:30:13PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
> For an array, you mean? like
> array a=( 1 2 3)
> array a+=( 4 5 6)
> then you get array a=(5 7 9).

Oh dear gods, no.

imadev:~$ a=(1 2 3)
imadev:~$ a+=(4 5 6)
imadev:~$ declare -p a
declare -a a='([0]="1" [1]="2" [2]="3" [3]="4" [4]="5" [5]="6")'

If you're proposing a change to this, it will break MANY scripts.