On 7/27/18 7:13 PM, konsolebox wrote:
> Hi Chet,
>
> I wonder if you can allow bash to have another syntax to allow simpler
> declaration and/or definition of associative arrays. The changes
> needed to have it done seem simple enough, and the only conflict it
> makes is a scalar `var={...` assignment, which in my opinion is better
> quoted to make it more readable and less questionable from other
> syntaxes like brace expansion. I believe most people intuitively
> quotes it, and assignments that start with `{` is fairly rare.
So it's syntactic sugar for `declare -gA a; a=( ... )'?
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