On 10/17/25 4:41 PM, Mark March wrote:
Is this enough of a special case to make it different?Well, to me the @A and @a expansion operators always looked different from all the others as they expand to the *attributes* of the variable rather than to a function of the variable's *value*.
Sure, but they still act on the target/value of a nameref variable, just like all the other word expansions.
Namerefs are transparent for get-value/set-value type operations. Should they be transparent for
attribute-focused expansions as well?
Why wouldn't they be transparent for all word expansions? That seems like
fewer special cases.
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