On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:59:51PM -0400, Shawn Wilson wrote: > I'll preface this by saying I'm not an expert in bash by any > means. However, most languages have a garbage collection facility
C does not. Bash (all shells, really) is very strongly influenced by C. > and most > high level languages make it easier to make a soft or symbolic > reference than making hard references. Bash is not a high-level language. > Also, whatever happens, I think there should also be a way to test > for variable type (either another test flag or something like perl's > ref() ). Bash is not a strongly typed language. You've got strings, and indexed arrays, and associative arrays. That's all. (There's declare -i, but no sane person USES that, so we can ignore it.) You might be trying to do things that Bash is simply not designed to do. It's a shell.
