Re: zsh style associative array assignment bug

[Ilkka Virta]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 1:40 AM Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com> wrote:

> Its just when populating that array dynamically with another array
> if that second array didn't contain `v1' hypothetically, the array gets
> shifted to
>
> a=( [k1]=k2 [v2]=k3 [v3]= )
> which i would imagine to be unexpected for the author of the code and
> would rather
> it error out instead of chugging along.
>

Just checking the parity can never help if there's a risk of values missing
from the middle of the list.
What if there's two values missing? You could be left with (k1 v1 k2 k3) or
(k1 v1 k2 v3).