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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Fri,  9 Mar 2007 08:55:44 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] How can I shift a variable other than ?
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that's a good solution.  i appoligize for being a topper but
here's the same function without eval:

	fn s {
		v = $1
		* = $$1
		shift
		$v = $*
	}

it does use a local, but it avoids a "null list in concatenation"
error if a=().  this is still very complicated for what should
be a simple operation in the shell. 

- erik