Re: Change in FIGNORE behavior

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:09:06AM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> [...]
> >   array=(one two three)
> > 
> > With KSH_ZERO_SUBSCRIPT set (old behaviour):
> >   $array[0]               -> one
> >   array[(R)notfound]      -> one
> >   $array[0,2]             -> one two
> [...]
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> why not "one two three" there (0, 1, 2)?

You're thinking of the KSH_ARRAYS option, which does have the effect you
say.  The old behaviour of the shell as shown above really was
that inconsistent... if you asked for 0 or 1 you got "one", if you asked
for 2 you got "two", but if you asked for the range 0 to 2 you got not
0 and 1 and 2, but just 1 and 2.  That's why we want to remove that
behaviour (at least by default).

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