Re: compaudit:74: _i_addfiles: assignment to invalid subscript range

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> % test=()
> % for i in {1..$#test}; do print $i; done
> 1
> 0
> 
> It's looping over a non-existent and a not-even-valid entry for an empty
> array, which is not very helpful.  That number is then being used as
> a subscript for the empty array.  I'm not actually sure the syntax
> {1..0} should be doing that, I don't think we've ever defined what it
> does.

Ah, I'm an idiot.

       If the  numbers  are  in  decreasing
       order the resulting sequence will also be in decreasing order.

So the brace expansion is doing exactly what it's been asked to do.

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