On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 6:13 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
> As a counter-proposal, Chet could entirely remove the special meaning > of unset 'a[@]' and introduce a new option to unset which would take > its place. It appears -a is not yet used, so that would be a good pick. > Unless I missed something, doesn't just unset a do the same: $ declare -A a=([foo]=123 [bar]=456) $ unset a $ declare -p a bash: declare: a: not found $ declare -A a=([foo]=123 [bar]=456) $ unset 'a[@]' $ declare -p a bash: declare: a: not found i.e. both remove the whole array, not just the contents.
