and what your solution could look like? I would use something like
___untie_array and ___untie_scalar that I would never use outside the untie
function, but I wonder if there is a more general solution

Il giorno sab 21 gen 2023 alle 20:16 Roman Perepelitsa <
roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 7:53 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of unorthodoxy ...
> >
> > untie () {
> >   emulate -L zsh
> >   case ${(tP)1} in
> >   (scalar-tied)
> >     local scalar=${(P)1}
> >     unset $1
> >     typeset -g $1=$scalar
> >     ;;
> >   (array-tied)
> >     local array=( ${(P)1} )
> >     unset $1
> >     # Need eval here for array assignment, as
> >     # reserved word doesn't work with $1=(...)
> >     eval "typeset -ga $1=( \$array )"
> >     ;;
> >   (*) ;;
> >   esac
> > }
>
> Bravo.
>
> `untie scalar` and `untie array` won't work due to name clashes but
> this seems easily fixable.
>
> Roman.
>
> --
Pier Paolo Grassi