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# From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
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# Subject: gawk-3.1.2[ab]: bug in delete
# Message-ID: <CMM.0.92.0.1053106714.beebe@suncore.math.utah.edu>
# 
# I discovered yesterday that one of my tools got broken by the upgrade
# to gawk-3.1.2a and gawk-3.1.2b.  For now, I've temporarily reset
# /usr/local/bin/gawk on the Sun Solaris and Intel GNU/Linux systems
# back to be gawk-3.1.2.
# 
# This morning, I isolated the problem to the following small test case:
# 
# 	% cat bug.awk
	BEGIN {
	    clear_array(table)
	    foo(table)
	    for (key in table)
		print key, table[key]
	    clear_array(table)
	    exit(0)
	}

	function clear_array(array, key)
	{
	    for (key in array)
		delete array[key]
	}

	function foo(a)
	{
	    a[1] = "one"
	    a[2] = "two"
	}
# 
# With nawk, mawk, and also gawk-3.1.2 or earlier, I get this:
# 
# 	% mawk -f bug.awk
# 	1
# 	2
# 
# However, with the two most recent gawk releases, I get:
# 
# 	% gawk-3.1.2b -f bug.awk
# 	gawk-3.1.2b: bug.awk:12: fatal: delete: illegal use of variable `table' as
# 	array
# 
# If the first clear_array() statement is commented out, it runs.
# However, the problem is that in a large program, it may not be easy to
# identify places where it is safe to invoke delete, so I believe the
# old behavior is more desirable.
# 
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