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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:37:43 +0200
From: "Ioannis Aslanidis" <aslanidis@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinions Wanted - Arrays again :)
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Form #1 looks clearer than #3, but still not so clear :)
On 10/25/07, Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 18:02 +0200, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> > These sh ``arrays'' are really just strings, right? Did you implement
> > functions to take them apart? Can the same function handle forms 1 and 3?
>
> I don't think we could use both.
> Here's a code snippet of actually using them
>
> # How baselayout-2 presently handles arrays
> eval "$(_get_array array)"
> for x in "$@"; do
> echo "$x"
> done
>
> # How baselayout-2 may handle arrays based on this discussion
> IFS="
> "
> for x in $(_get_array array); do
> unset IFS
> echo "$x"
> done
>
> Assume that the _get_array function correctly maps the bash array to the
> posix shell one in both cases.
>
> Thanks
>
> Roy
>
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