[ast-developers] Issue with initialisation of associative arrays as member of a nested type...

[Roland Mainz]

Hi!

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A 3rd-party customer hit an old issue with associative array
initalisation in types when the types are nested.

Example:
The following testcase...
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$ ksh -c 'typeset -T y_t=( typeset -A ar=( ["a"]=1 ["z"]=666 ) ) ;
typeset -T f_t=( y_t a ; y_t b ) ; compound c=( f_t f ; y_t y ); print
-v c'
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... should AFAIK print...
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(
f_t f=(
y_t a=(
typeset -A ar=(
[a]=1
[z]=666
)
)
y_t b=(
typeset -A ar=(
[a]=1
[z]=666
)
)
)
y_t y=(
typeset -A ar=(
[a]=1
[z]=666
)
)
)
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... but ast-ksh.2013-05-24 prints this:
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(
f_t f=(
y_t a=(
typeset -C -a ar
)
y_t b=(
typeset -C -a ar
)
)
y_t y=(
typeset -A ar=(
[a]=1
[z]=666
)
)
)
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The issue here is that c.f.a.ar and c.f.b.ar are printed as indexed
compound array while it should be plain associative string arrays with
pre-set elements "a" and "z" (c.y.ar shows how it should look like)
...

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Bye,
Roland