I can understand this, but perhaps this discussion is too general? in this particular case there is no point in the assignment. Unless you can convince me there is?
pg On 5 May 2016, at 00:31, Dan Douglas wrote: > ...Also remember it isn't feasible to actually validate a "name" in a > script because a name can contain a subscript with a command > substitution that effectively requires parsing the full language. > (there are some tricks like with `set -nv` and reading its output to > shanghai the shell parser into doing your bidding, but that's not very > practical.). Before bash had namerefs, it could ignore aspects of > "invalid" names, like trailing characters after an array subscript, > which makes some valid ksh names at least get partially interpreted in > bash, like `a[foo].bar` or `a[foo][bar]`.
