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Re: param expansion with single-character special vars in the environmen


From: Piotr Grzybowski
Subject: Re: param expansion with single-character special vars in the environment
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 21:37:59 +0200

On 4 May 2016, at 17:51, Chet Ramey wrote:

> The issue I'm thinking about currently is whether or not to allow nameref
> variables to have numeric (integer) values.  bash-4.3 didn't allow those
> values to be expanded, but allowed them to be assigned.  It doesn't seem
> harmful to change the error to assignment time.

I vote for error at assignment, whats the point of allowing pointless 
assignment?

pg





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