Re: [bug-gawk] Access variables not conforming to the variable naming convention?

[Joep van Delft]

fwiw, ngetopt.awk[1] relies on the current SYMTAB behavior.

[1]: https://github.com/joepvd/ngetopt.awk

address@hidden schreef op 2018-12-03 15:10:
> > Are you disabling that ability to create the variable by poking it 
> > into SYMTAB
>
> **** THERE IS NO SUCH CAPABILITY ****.  The fact that you reference 
> 'age'
> in the program is what puts it into SYMTAB.
>
> Your program creates unrelated (non-variable) elements in SYMTAB "name"
> and "weight" that are no different from any other array elements.

The internal details of that a variable really gets assigned when used
without the SYMTAB array does not really matter from a user's 
perspective.
Either a user references the variable directly, and it works, or doesn't
reference a variable defined through SYMTAB, and it also works.

> It is exactly this confusion that I'm trying to avoid.

I do not mind getting weird errors in unexpected places when not 
adhering to
variable name conventions in this indirect way.

> Arnold