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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: Is ${} supported?
In-Reply-To: <199611280945.KAA13874@hydra.ifh.de> from Peter Stephenson at "Nov 28, 96 10:45:50 am"
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Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Just as a matter of interest, why does the following not work the same
> way?
> 
> % print ${(j/,/):-/proc/*(U:t)} 
> 23020 23048 23051 23052 23062 26604

Because globbing performed much later than expansion.  The order is
precisely described in zshexpn.man.

Zoltan