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| author | Oliver Kiddle <opk@users.sourceforge.net> | 2002-10-09 13:19:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Oliver Kiddle <opk@users.sourceforge.net> | 2002-10-09 13:19:26 +0000 |
| commit | ae8f4db3857a317a2cc2ff1c7533b7e911ec3221 (patch) | |
| tree | b01696e279114da061936b3f8066ace78e6a4c4e /Etc | |
| parent | 3ad5e3e7fefa823cb9b1186507999b0d5d9f3f2d (diff) | |
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mention that typeset doesn't default parameters to scalar in ksh
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diff --git a/Etc/STD-TODO b/Etc/STD-TODO index a228dee96..745a196d4 100644 --- a/Etc/STD-TODO +++ b/Etc/STD-TODO @@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ All parameters in ksh are indexed arrays. That's why $array has to mean ${array[0]}, and why subscripts can't be used to extract substrings from scalars. +`typeset a' in ksh does not initialise `a' to be a scalar with the empty +string as its value but leaves it undefined. If it is used in array +context, its value will be that of an empty array so, for example +"${a[@]}" will return nothing. + In ksh, exec 3<file causes file 3 to be close on exec. DGK says: "This allows scripts to |