From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 483 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2003 15:49:07 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Jul 2003 15:49:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 14761 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2003 15:48:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6393 Received: (qmail 14751 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2003 15:48:51 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Jul 2003 15:48:51 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [65.212.83.34] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 11 Jul 2003 15:48:51 -0000 Received: from odys.com ([206.157.224.254]) by odys.com ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:48:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3F0EDC61.50001@odys.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:48:49 -0400 From: Joe Gainey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: information about feature availability Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone tell me if any of the following can be done with zsh? 1. assignments of the form: varname[word]=( [word]=word [word]=word ... ) 2. validating variable assigment using predetermined function. 3. I would also like to be able to use reference variables. This `feature' is a little less important since it seams that zsh has scoping capabilities (local vs. global). /Joe