Re: [bug-gawk] typeof() array subscripts

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi.

> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 01:23:22PM +0200, Hermann Peifer wrote:
> > I just came across the new builtin function typeof() in gawk master and made
> > the below observations which I found confusing, because "array subscripts
> > are always strings", as I learned from the manual. Maybe I am overlooking
> > something.
>
> Well, the truth is not quite as simple as the manual makes it out to be.
> The code has some different backend array implementations to optimize 
> performance for arrays with integer subscripts, since that's an important
> usage case. 
>
> ....
>
> I think what you're seeing here are artifacts of that issue.

Yes. I don't think it's worth the effort to try to fix this, either...

Thanks,

Arnold