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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gawk.1 | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gawktexi.in | 8 |
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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index f31aae7f..261388a2 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2018-11-29 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in (Auto-set): Document that you can no longer use + arbitrary indices in SYMTAB. + * gawk.1: Ditto. + 2018-11-27 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in (Other Versions): Document GoAWK, an awk interpreter @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ . if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq . \} .\} -.TH GAWK 1 "Nov 26 2018" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" +.TH GAWK 1 "Nov 29 2018" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands" .SH NAME gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -1425,7 +1425,8 @@ You may not use the .B delete statement with the .B SYMTAB -array. +array, nor assign to elements with an index that is +not a variable name. .TP .B TEXTDOMAIN The text domain of the \*(AK program; used to find the localized diff --git a/doc/gawktexi.in b/doc/gawktexi.in index 9a21913b..cc667534 100644 --- a/doc/gawktexi.in +++ b/doc/gawktexi.in @@ -15253,7 +15253,8 @@ if an element in @code{SYMTAB} is an array. Also, you may not use the @code{delete} statement with the @code{SYMTAB} array. -You may use an index for @code{SYMTAB} that is not a predefined identifier: +Prior to @value{PVERSION} 5.0 of @command{gawk}, you could +use an index for @code{SYMTAB} that was not a predefined identifier: @example SYMTAB["xxx"] = 5 @@ -15261,9 +15262,8 @@ print SYMTAB["xxx"] @end example @noindent -This works as expected: in this case @code{SYMTAB} acts just like -a regular array. The only difference is that you can't then delete -@code{SYMTAB["xxx"]}. +This no longer works, instead producing a fatal error, as it led +to rampant confusion. @cindex Schorr, Andrew The @code{SYMTAB} array is more interesting than it looks. Andrew Schorr |