Hi Florian, On Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2014, Florian Weimer wrote: > Array variables practically imply arithmetic evaluation, amd this is a > shell feature which is rather difficult to use correctly because > compatibility with other shell encourages both recursive evaluation > and access to the full shell language in a few corners. and if I dont care about compatibilty? > If you need array variables, it's likely that the script has grown so > complex that switching to another language is a good idea. oh, yeah. amen++ cheers, Holger, just dealing with 25 lines of shell growing into 1000 lines and where I missed the point to switch to python or anything else sensible....
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