Re: easy calling of associative array?

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 4,  6:48am, Ray Andrews wrote:
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} Historian that I am, I expect that if the writers of the first shells
} realized how far their work would evolve, they'd have introduced
} rigorous C-ish scoping and typing at the getgo, since largeish
} projects sure could use it.

Historically no one would have written that sort of project in shell;
that's what C was for.  Even functions are a bolt-on to the original
shells; there was no scoping to consider at the time.