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List:       ast-developers
Subject:    [ast-developers] Side effect of a reference declaration
From:       monoped () sudrala ! de (Bernd Eggink)
Date:       2007-11-18 8:34:37
Message-ID: 47403F37.3070207 () sudrala ! de
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Declaring a reference to an array element i creates all of the i-1 
preceding elements:

    $ unset a
    $ typeset -n r=a[3]
    $ print ${!a[*]}
    0 1 2

This looks like a bug to me, or is it really intended?

Regards,
Bernd

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Bernd Eggink
monoped@sudrala.de
http://sudrala.de

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