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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Why is path not a -aUT type?
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2023 09:00:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <73616777-fee9-4408-0fb0-56330bd0ab2a@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34068e49-0dc8-4f8e-8152-46791e5f6e26@app.fastmail.com>


On 2023-04-02 00:56, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>
>> Yes.  $path is non-unique by default for interoperability with the OS
>> zsh was created on.
> To be clear, that was an April Fools' Day prank.  See the rest of this thread
> for serious answers.

Thanks for coming clean, I bought it hook, line and sinker.  I was even 
going to post a 'thanks' because I love those historical anecdotes, they 
often give insight into the cultural foundations of various things that 
are otherwise hard to understand.  And it would have been so completely 
believable if that story had been true.  There are, after all, backdoors 
into half the softwares out there, no?  I like to say that zsh is like 
the London street map -- not always exactly logical but there are 
quaint, historical reasons for it and if you know the history it's 
easier to make peace with the fact that you are entirely lost.





      reply	other threads:[~2023-04-02 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-31 11:16 Zach Riggle
2022-05-31 12:30 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2022-05-31 17:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-05-31 17:44   ` Lawrence Velázquez
2023-04-01  0:01 ` Daniel Shahaf
2023-04-02  7:56   ` Daniel Shahaf
2023-04-02 16:00     ` Ray Andrews [this message]

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