On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:47 PM, Quentin L'Hours
Useless space after last item of a declare -p on an assoc array (indexed
arrays don't print it, and neither does ksh typeset on assoc arrays).
It doesn't seem to have any consequence though.
Repeat-By:
$ declare -A capital[fr]=Paris
$ declare -p capital
declare -A capital=([fr]="Paris" )
You cannot assign an attribute to an individual element of any array. The
behaviour for indexed arrays is described in the manual:
"declare -a name[subscript] is also accepted; the subscript is ignored."
In the case of a previously declared associative array in the current
scope, one might argue that bash should throw an error instead. I think
what you're seeing is bash taking a "reasonable default" instead of
throwing an error in response to a nonsensical assignment.