Re: "${assoc[@]@k}" doesn't get expanded to separate words within compound assignment syntax

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/24/24 1:04 PM, Zachary Santer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 11:23 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> > This is what you can do with @K.
> >
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2021-08/msg00119.html
> >
> > Word splitting doesn't happen on the rhs of an assignment statement, so you
> > use eval. The @K quoting is eval-safe.
>
> Yeah, but what can you do with @k?

Once I added the kvpair key/value compound assignment syntax, it made sense
to have a transformation that would output it.

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