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From: konsolebox <konsolebox@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Assignment of associative arrays through braces
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 15:39:00 +0800
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 2:20 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>
> On 8/19/18 10:27 AM, konsolebox wrote:
>
> >> This proposal simply requests an intuitively equivalent simple
> >> assignment syntax for associative arrays just like a='...' and
> >> a=(...), with same behavior for scoping.
> >>
> >> Maybe we can add another option like -G to have similar effect but
> >> that's a little different already.  Just allowing a={} would make it
> >> simpler for every scripter.
> >
> > By the way, is this rejected?
>
> No, it will not make it into bash-5.0 so I haven't looked at it further.
> It is on the list for a future release.

Ok, sounds good.

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konsolebox