Re: uninvited members of associative array

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 1:15 PM Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But variables are not even a real part of the shell, the shell
> script or its data.  Every process has an associated environment
> that consists of "key=value" pairs.

This is entirely untrue.  The shell has a separate parameter space
that is unrelated to the process environment.  That's why the "export"
("typeset +x") command exists:  to move values from the shell
parameter space into the environment space.

You're just making things worse by trying to assert that shells are
not programming languages.  Stop.

> Of course modern shells have lots of self contained builtin
> commands and control structures that resemble programming
> languages.

Shells definitely are a form of programming language.  That they
combine a number of features not usually found all in the same
language doesn't change that.