Re: Requesting an alternate nameref feature

[Rene Herman]

On 12/12/2012 07:04 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:

> While the current nameref implementation is tremendously valuable in
> writing functions that manipulate non-local arrays, it does very
> little else that couldn't already be done with Bash's indirect
> parameter expansion, or to solve the encapsulation problem.

"Oh, you tease" ...

That is, mind a bash-newbie question as to what this "bash+" is? And 
specifically, is this nameref implementation that you speak of something 
that's in the pipeline for "regular bash"? Because, yes, when 
investigating a recent question of mine as to the status of 
multi-dimensional arrays, I ran into the fact that indirect parameter 
expansion would solve most of my needs -- if only it would behave with 
arrays. "typeset -n" doesn't exist  for my bash-4.2.39...

Kind regards,
Rene