Re: zsh style associative array assignment bug

[Eric Cook]

On 3/28/21 7:02 AM, Oğuz wrote:
> As it should be. `[bar]' doesn't qualify as an assignment without an equals 
> sign, the shell thinks you're mixing two forms of associative array assignment 
> there.
>
> In the new form, that a key is listed inside a compound assignment alone 
> implies that it was meant to be assigned a value. In my mind, `a=(foo 123 bar)' 
> translates to `a=([foo]=123 [bar]=)'. It makes sense.

That is the point that i am making, in typeset -A ary=([key]=) an explicit 
empty string is the value, but in the case of typeset -A ary=([key]) it was 
historically an error. So why should an key without a value now be acceptable?