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Sat, 21 Jan 2023 08:48:11 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <0dc71450-d082-93da-52f8-d4e6b97199af@eastlink.ca> <378fcf6a-edb0-885b-3d08-9ebee33bb911@eastlink.ca> <3885c637-c56f-2bb7-9a89-02009254ed75@eastlink.ca> In-Reply-To: <3885c637-c56f-2bb7-9a89-02009254ed75@eastlink.ca> From: Bart Schaefer Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 08:48:00 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: path PATH To: Ray Andrews Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000073586905f2c8ee56" X-Seq: 28687 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: --00000000000073586905f2c8ee56 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 8:21 AM Ray Andrews wrote: > > I suspect > that, as Lawrence said, it's because PATH is an internally created > modification of path, it's a scalar created from an array. So FOO is > all fine, but PATH has a certain specialness -- no other tied parameter > has one 'version' different from the other. > The definition of a tied parameter is that one of the pair is a scalar string with an internal delimiter defaulting to a colon, and the other is an array of the delimited values. There's nothing magic about PATH in this respect. --00000000000073586905f2c8ee56 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 8:21 AM Ray Andre= ws <rayandrews@eastlink.ca= > wrote:

I suspect
that, as Lawrence said, it's because PATH is an internally created
modification of path, it's a scalar created from an array.=C2=A0 So FOO= is
all fine, but PATH has a certain specialness -- no other tied parameter has one 'version' different from the other.
The definition of a tied parameter is that one of the pair is = a scalar string with an internal delimiter defaulting to a colon, and the o= ther is an array of the delimited values.=C2=A0 There's nothing magic a= bout PATH in this respect.
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