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On 03/05/2014 08:02 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Mar 4,  9:09pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
> } Subject: Re: how to truncate an array
> }
> } What I mean is how the underlying C code knows to terminate
> } the array. Come to think of it, there must be a null inserted, cuz
> } that's how C does things
>
> Zsh does happen to manage shell arrays as C array-of-pointers but as
> I said before, in the shell syntax/semantics they function more like
> linked lists.  Because the shell language is "higher level" than C,
> the internals have to deal with all sorts of other stuff like memory
> management.  Bash, for example, does use linked lists internally to
> represent arrays.
>
My talk is just me psyching myself up to build zsh from source and then 
start poking around in the code.
Don't take my ruminations seriously Bart, you have better things to do. 
I'll stop making such remarks
they make me sound bitchy.