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Sun, 22 Jan 2023 08:15:15 -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> <3b93f68e-d090-15c0-c15e-a3d09d702f76@eastlink.ca> <07323898-9985-4e9f-8b54-c08fd8510fe8@app.fastmail.com> <08102bc6-b331-504f-fcd5-28fa3cdb0e2f@eastlink.ca> In-Reply-To: From: Bart Schaefer Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 08:15:04 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: path PATH To: Ray Andrews Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Seq: 28712 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: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 6:17 AM Ray Andrews wrote: > > Fantastic. I've never seen parameter descriptions of that sort. This is exactly what I suggested in zsh-users/28317 last November, except I wrote it as a one-liner using the $parameters variable. > But, as Bart was saying, we can't export arrays (why not? it > seems arbitrary) The operating system defines the environment as an array ("C" language) of strings; you can't nest the arrays. The way an array is represented in the environment is by convention to separate the elements with colons.