Re: Any chance of multi-dimensional arrays?

[Rene Herman]

On 11/26/2012 06:51 AM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:

> Hey, calm down. People are just trying to help. Also, this question
> has already been asked previously. Please read this:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-09/msg00062.html
>
> (To put you in context, Chet Ramey is the current maintainer of
> bash).

I'm quite calm, thank you :-) And thank you doubly for the link. Hadn't 
googled up much of anything concerning this myself (other than that 
multitude of existing workarounds) but Chet's reply is exactly the thing 
that I wanted -- to see if there is an interest in discussing the merits 
of implementing them, while presenting a use-case that, I feel, 
naturally belongs to the realm of scripts yet would improve nicely from 
having them.

I am not familiar with the bash source, and if they are actually hard 
and/or messy to implement, the answer might very well still be simply 
"no", and I'll just continue to use the accessor-function approach that 
I'm using now -- but if it's just a matter of missing use-cases, I 
thought that me mentioning this one could be welcome while I was writing 
this script.

So. I see that that previous discussion is only from a year ago but died 
immediately again without a use-case. Chet? You probably read the list 
so pardon if you don't care for the personal CC but do you feel that this:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2012-11/msg00048.html

has any merit?

Kind regards,
Rene.