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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:06:48 +0000
From: Phil Pennock <comet@fysh.org>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: globbing for links in pathnames
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Typing away merrily, Bart Schaefer produced the immortal words:
> D'oh!  I was distracted by attempting to get globbing to happen in the
> right-side of ${x::=*(@)}, discovered that glob_assign wouldn't do it,
> and then just left it there and typed the other solution.

Okay, why do neither the second nor third ones here work "as expected"?

% print -l ${(A)~x::=pkgs/*(@)}given that:
pkgs/bar
pkgs/foo
% print -l ${(A)^~x::=pkgs/*(@)}/man 
pkgs/*(@)/man
% print -l ${^${(A)~x::=pkgs/*(@)}}/man
pkgs/*(@)/man
% 

I'm a little confused.
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