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Re: set -u not working as expected


From: Oğuz
Subject: Re: set -u not working as expected
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 09:51:16 +0300

2 Ağustos 2020 Pazar tarihinde Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me> yazdı:

> > On Aug 1, 2020, at 8:47 PM, Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me> wrote:
> >
> > Presumably none of these shells implements u+=(t) as u=("${u[@]}" t).
>
> Granted, they do disagree on ${u[@]}.
>
> % bash -c 'set -u; unset u; u=("${u[@]}" t); typeset -p u'
> declare -a u=([0]="t")
> % ksh -c 'set -u; unset u; u=("${u[@]}" t); typeset -p u'
> typeset -a u=(t)
> % zsh -c 'set -u; unset u; u=("${u[@]}" t); typeset -p u'
> zsh:1: u[@]: parameter not set
>
>
`u' has no members, so there's nothing to expand. If you use `${u[0]}' for
example, you'll see an error, I think how bash and ksh behave is perfectly
reasonable.


> > I haven't seen the code for arithmetic expansion, but I assume it
> > treats v+=1 as morally equivalent to v=${v}+1 (à la C99). Thus there
> > *is* an expansion, which fails under set -u. Regardless of the
> > particulars, ksh and zsh again agree:
> >
> > % bash -c 'set -u; unset v; let v+=1; printf "<%s>\\n" "$v"'
> > bash: v: unbound variable
> > % ksh -c 'set -u; unset v; let v+=1; printf "<%s>\\n" "$v"'
> > ksh: let: v: parameter not set
> > ksh: v: parameter not set
> > % zsh -c 'set -u; unset v; let v+=1; printf "<%s>\\n" "$v"'
> > zsh:1: v: parameter not set
> > zsh:1: v: parameter not set
>
> On the other hand...
>
> % bash -c 'set -u; typeset -i v; printf "<%s>\\n" "$v"'
> bash: v: unbound variable
> % ksh -c 'set -u; typeset -i v; printf "<%s>\\n" "$v"'
> ksh: v: parameter not set
> % zsh -c 'set -u; typeset -i v; printf "<%s>\\n" "$v"'
> <0>
>
>
`typeset -i v' doesn't assign `v', just gives it the integer attribute.
Again, I can't see any problem with bash and ksh here.


> ...and...
>
> % bash -c 'set -u; typeset -i v; v+=1; printf "<%s>\\n" "$v"'
> <1>
> % ksh -c 'set -u; typeset -i v; v+=1; printf "<%s>\\n" "$v"'
> <1>
> % zsh -c 'set -u; typeset -i v; v+=1; printf "<%s>\\n" "$v"'
> <1>
>
> *shrug*
>
> vq
>


-- 
Oğuz


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