From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: copying an array
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 23:07:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7YP7fkKY4YPyRtfzEpLgkxzqTz-Xm5YfEtAx14jLsj02g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140808051201.GA4539@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Dominik Vogt <vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
wrote:
>
> Is there a specific reason why typeset cannot initialize arrays?
>
In zsh, "typeset" is not a syntactic keyword, it's just an ordinary builtin
command. So its arguments must follow the standard metacharacter,
word-break, and quoting rules that apply to the arguments of any command.
Parenthesized array-assignment syntax can't be used, and unlike "set" the
arguments of "typeset" after the first are already given different
semantics so they can't be interpreted as values of the array.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-08 6:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-05 5:44 Dominik Vogt
2014-08-05 15:41 ` Yuya Amemiya
2014-08-05 15:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-08-08 5:12 ` Dominik Vogt
2014-08-08 6:07 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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