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Re: [PATCH 1/3] Extended ksh compatibility: namespace parameter syntax

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Extended ksh compatibility: namespace parameter syntax
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2023 13:11:46 -0800
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On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 12:20 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 1:57 AM Sebastian Gniazdowski
> <sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I wonder, how far is this from supporting a nested arrays? Like arr[2][3] or assoc[a][c]?
>
> It's exactly as far as it has always been.

The other unanswered question is, to what does arr[2] expand when
arr[2][3] is also an array?  That is, when you have to subscript 3+
times to reach a scalar?  There's no convenient text representation of
array-of-array; do we just throw an error if there are too few levels
of dereference?

References:
- [PATCH 1/3] Extended ksh compatibility: namespace parameter syntax
  - From: Bart Schaefer
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] Extended ksh compatibility: namespace parameter syntax
  - From: Oliver Kiddle
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] Extended ksh compatibility: namespace parameter syntax
  - From: Sebastian Gniazdowski
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] Extended ksh compatibility: namespace parameter syntax
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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