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On 09/12/2015 07:36 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>
> ... one might imagine some shorthand '/usr/share/zsh/functions/**/'
> One might, but then the handling of $fpath would be inconsistent with
> $path, $module_path, $manpath, etc.; and more importantly, the order
> of entries in the array is signficant in case the same file name (with
> different implementation) appears in more than one directory.
>
Quite so.  However tiresome it is to read the variable, I can see that a 
precise order would need to be defined. I had thought that the above 
idea would apply to any variable that references files and directories 
but I see that that wouldn't be a good idea.  A bad idea demolished is a 
particularly effective lesson.  I learned quite a bit today.