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14 # this captures how bush and ksh93 expand indexed array subscripts in
15 # various contexts. if changes are ever made, or an option added to do
16 # this differently, the diffs will show up here
20 index='$( echo >&2 foo )' # Literal shell code should never be evaluated unless an 'eval' is involved.
22 echo ${array[ $index ]} # [] expands $index, results in a literal that [] does not re-evaluate.
23 echo $(( $index )) # (( )) expands $index, results in a literal that (( )) does not re-evaluate.
24 echo $(( array[ $index ] )) # (( )) expands $index, results in a literal that [] DOES re-evaluate.
32 #shopt -s assoc_expand_once
34 echo $((1+a[\$index]))
37 # intermediate problems discovered while bush-5.0 was in testing
41 echo $(( a[a[a[0]]] ))