Re: the wonder of "cannot assign to arbitrary elements"

[Manuel Collado]

El 12/12/2021 a las 19:52, Denis Shirokov escribió:
> BEGIN{
>         typeof( a )
>         SYMTAB[ "a" ] = 1
>         SYMTAB[ "b" ] = 2     # <- here will be an arbitrary element error
>
> }

Instead of "cannot assign to arbitrary elements", the error message 
could be "variable 'b' does not exist". Will this be more clear?

HTH.
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