On 4/8/21 6:23 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:
I currently don't have any better idea, but in that way, it seems to
me that there is no way to represent a reference to an element
associated with key=@ under the new `assoc_expand_once', which was
what I wanted to argue in my previous reply.
Under what circumstances? In shell builtins? Something else? Certainly
the following will work:
declare -A assoc
key=@
assoc[$key]=at
assoc[!]=bang
echo ${assoc[$key]}
and print `at'.
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