Re: Variable expansion inside of functions

On Sat, Apr 18, 2026 at 3:58 PM Bart Schaefer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Arrays are parameters.  Everything described in the section on
> parameters applies to arrays (and associative arrays / hashes) as
> well.  The semantics may differ slightly -- sometimes every array
> element is affected individually, sometimes the whole array is
> examined.  For $+name (which is shorthand for ${+name}), it's the
> whole array.
>

But the quoted snippet doesn't use bare $+name; it uses $+name[index],
which does return the appropriate result for that specific element of the
array.

Worth mentioning that $+name is 1 even for an empty array, where $+name[1]
in that case will be 0.

-- 
Mark J. Reed <[email protected]>