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9.3 Variable Typing Is Dynamic ¶
It’s a desert topping!
It’s a floor wax!
— Saturday Night Live (back when it used to be funny)
awk is a very fluid language.
It is possible that awk can’t tell if an identifier
represents a scalar variable or an array until runtime.