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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
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Subject: Re: forbidden variable in for loop.
In-Reply-To: <50D1DBBC.20200@eastlink.ca> (Ray Andrews's message of "Wed, 19
	Dec 2012 07:22:36 -0800")
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Ray Andrews wrote:
>   for i in *; do echo $i; done
>
> Gives me a list of zeros. Followed by "zsh: bad floating point constant"
>
> It works fine for any letter of the alphabet so far tested except 'i'.  For the
> life of me I can't guess what it is that makes 'i' special. Any thoughts?

  print ${(t)i}

I bet there's an `integer in there for `i' but not for `a'.

Regards, Frank