Re: Nasty bug in array-element typeset assignments

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> Urgh. Is that really that useful? I think it'd be better to save the
> extra mess in the code and disallow it with roughly what you get by
> adding this:
> 
>        } else if (on & PM_LOCAL && locallevel) {
>            zerrnam(cname,
>                    "%s, can't create local array elements", pname, 0);
>            return NULL;
> 
> after the similar bit for readonly inside the strchr(pname, '[') test in
> typeset_single.

Something like that would definitely be my preference.

> Incidentally, I get a couple of test failures with the latest CVS - on
> with _arguments and the other for posixbuiltins.

I get the _arguments one --- it seems to be just a matter of change of
spacing, so possibly the test itself needs updating.

I don't get the one for posixbuiltins --- and there isn't much possibility
of variation at that point, so I can't offer an explanation.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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