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Comments: In reply to Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
        "Re: Expansion order" (Jan 25,  2:53pm)
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On Jan 25,  2:53pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: Expansion order
}
} typeset -xT LS_OPTIONS="-N --color=tty -T 0" ls_options
} alias ls='ls $ls_options'
} 
} This allows for whitespace characters in the options as long as you
} manipulate them through the array ls_options.

Doesn't that need to be

  typeset -xT LS_OPTIONS="-N --color=tty -T 0" ls_options ' '

??  Otherwise it's splitting on colons, not spaces.