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From: Filipe Silva <filipe.silva@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:32:43 -0200
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Subject: revisiting passing arrays to functions
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I searched through the archives and found this message about passing arrays
to functions: http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2011/msg00967.html

Basically it says that it is not very comfortable:

% deref() { print ${(P)1}; print ${(P)1[-1]}; }
% array=(there once was a hacker named dave)
% deref array
there once was a hacker named dave
dave


You have to dereference the array first.

But that was in 2011. Is that changed? Do we have a way to pass zsh
arrays to a zsh function in a comfortable way?


thanks in advance.


Filipe

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