[ksh93-integration-discuss] Dereferencing an array namereference

[Roland Mainz]

David Korn wrote:
> cc:  ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Subject: Re: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Dereferencing an array name reference
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> > > However, the behavior of
> > >         ${!x[foo]}
> > > is currently undocumented and currently outputs foo.  This will be changed
> >
> > Why do you think that this is undocumented? I'd expect that if x is an
> > element in an array [foo] describes the 2nd dimension, expanding to
> > a[x][foo]. Or am I wrong?
> 
> I was saying that even in the case that x is an array variable, not a reference,
> that the documentation does not say ${!x[foo]} will yield.  It should
> yield x[foo] but it in fact gives foo.
> 
> You are correc that if x is a name reference to a[x], then ${!x[foo]} should
> be a[x][foo].

Erm... I thought ksh93 doesn't support the "a[x][foo]"-style syntax...

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Bye,
Roland

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