Re: PATCH: 3.1.5 - sample associative array implementation

[Timothy Writer <Tim.Writer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Nov 15,  3:42am, Timothy Writer wrote:
> } Subject: Re: PATCH: 3.1.5 - sample associative array implementation
> }
> } > That leads to the question, how do you remove a particular key/value pair
> } > from a ksh93 associative array?
> } 
> } "unset foo[bar]" seems to work.
> 
> Ooh, ick.  That means in ksh93 `unset' is a keyword, not just a builtin, and
> changes the parse of what follows it.
> 
> I rather don't like that ... can you make a shell function named "unset" in
> ksh93?

No:

    $ unset() {
    > builtin unset "$@"
    > }
    /usr/dt/bin/dtksh: unset: illegal function name
    $

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