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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:12:50 -0700
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Comments: In reply to Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
        "Re: zsh -n does not detect incorrect associative array declaration" (Mar 24,  9:46am)
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On Mar 24,  9:46am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: zsh -n does not detect incorrect associative array declaratio
}
} On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:08:30 -0700
} Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
} > Bash allows you to set numerically-indexed positions in a normal array
} > with the ( [key]=value ) syntax, and also outputs the arrays that way
} > with "typeset -p".  You can have sparse arrays in bash.
} 
} We probably need to decide which to support at some point.

It would be a pretty major rewrite to support sparse arrays, we do all
sorts of things based on the idea that a zsh array is basically the
same as an argv in C.  (Bash, I believe, uses linked lists.)

Of course to be "traditional" about it, we'd do it the ksh way when
KSH_ARRAYS and the bash way when ... something else.