On 8/19/26 12:44 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
Bash Version: 5.3
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: maint
git commit 2f7eb80c77
This has no effect on key-value pair compound assignment as part of a
declaration command.
OK. Please test out the compound assignment statement behavior.
I know that bash by default can't actually export indexed or
associative arrays into the environment, but was that last bit just
undocumented behavior, or was that not supposed to happen at all?
You can set the export attribute, it just doesn't get added to the
environment.
I have a hard time believing that anyone would take advantage of the
prior key-value pair compound assignment behavior. I don't see a point
to the new kvpair_split shopt option.
OK. It's enabled by default.
The description of the readonly command in the devel branch doc/bash.1
includes a little typo:
This sets the value of the variable ~~is~~ to value while modifying the
readonly attribute.
Thanks.
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