Re: Shouldn't readonly (-r) prevent type changes?

Philippe Altherr wrote:
> Bash seems to forbid all type changes for read-only parameters, while ksh
> prevents most, sometimes without any error message, and allows some like
> "typeset -r -i var; typeset -a var", which creates a read-only array of
> integers.

I think ksh treats all variables as being arrays so thatisn't a type
conversion. It was already a one element array.

Oliver