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Re: Assignment of associative arrays through braces

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  Re: Assignment of associative arrays through braces Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-08-20 14:20 -0400

#14512 — Re: Assignment of associative arrays through braces

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.


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