Re: Arrays

[Steven Penny <svnpenn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 5:52 PM Jason Bowen wrote:
> Two goals of dash are to be small and POSIX compliant; arrays are
> outside of that scope.
>
> From the description section of the dash man page:
> > Only features designated by POSIX, plus a few Berkeley extensions,
> > are being incorporated into this shell.
>
> If you're willing to explain the problem you're trying to solve I'm
> sure people are willing to help, but that help may not come in the form
> of bash-style arrays in dash.

You are right. I have posted an issue to POSIX instead:

https://mail-archive.com/austin-group-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg03975.html