Re: Consolidate recommended options?

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/29/24 4:34 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

> I'm aware of the pitfalls described therein, and more.  I don't
> think anyone thinks multiple evaluation in indexes is good per se,
> but many find the side effects of the attempted cures worse than
> the disease (e.g., https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#pf62).

In its zeal to demonstrate how bad bash is, that little code snippet
ignores the obvious solution:

declare -A hash
key=\'\]
hash[$key]=17
(( hash[key]++ ))
declare -p hash

Since arithmetic evaluation performs its own expansion of identifiers.
assoc_expand_once also works. But that wasn't really the point, was it?

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