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Re:Show HN: Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk by leoh on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:21PM (#23616058)
Yes, a bit tricky. You don't need to declare arrays in AWK, amazingly. Interesting how long it takes to get ergonomic gestures just right in languages.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Array-Exa...

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Re:Show HN: Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk by tyingq on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:50PM (#23620081)
The technical term is a funny word..."autovivification". Perl does this as well.
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