Re: Consolidate recommended options?

[microsuxxor]

i found it working if i $key in (( , not just '[key]'

i dunno i look for cmds to make em work ..

On Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 6:15 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> 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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>