On 2024-04-13 10:27, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Small followup I meant to type but didn't:
>
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 1:19 PM Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>         redline *'\nddd=( "${(@f)aaa}" ) ... it seems like a lot of
>         trouble to copy the array as it is.'*
>
>
>     That comment confuses me; you aren't copying the array as it is at
>     all! You've gone from *aaa, *which has one element, to *ddd
>     *having 8 elements. That's a far cry from "copying as it is".
>
Ah, but Mark, I figured all that out by the bottom of the post.  At that 
point I was still laboring under 'visual thinking' .  I dare say I'm 
straightened out.  I had thought that 'split on newlines' meant 'add 
\n's where needed to demarcate element boundaries'.  It's actually sorta 
the opposite -- there is no demarcation character and \n's will in fact 
be removed.  But I'm still not happy with the dollars.  I had thought 
that "  $'...'  "  was grammatical but we have " ' ' "  -- meaning an 
empty line -- without the leading dollar, so the closest thing I could 
pattern was that they replaced the newlines.   If anyone on the planet 
can get it wrong, it's me.