On 2024-01-14 12:13, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity#Table_of_common_time_complexities
Yikes!  I'm sorry I asked.  Thanks tho, but that's scary stuff.
>> Seems to me that
>> at a first estimation one might want:
>>
>> 1) Full exact copy -- byte identical including blanks, newlines,
>> trailing stuff and naughty chars. slurp.
> Reading an entire file into a variable is often -- not always, but
> often -- a red flag that suggests the entire script is poorly
> designed.  It uses more memory and makes it difficult to feed the
> data to external utilties (although the latter is less of a concern
> with zsh in particular, which relies on external utilities less
> than other shells do).

I appreciate  the historical context.  Much is understandable when you know

the history.

> Elision of empty values is a property of unquoted expansion.  It
> has NOTHING to do with variable types.

I'll take another look, thanks.  I may have gotten my wires crossed.


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