From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 554 invoked from network); 10 Aug 1998 16:52:21 -0000 Received: from ns2.primenet.com.au (HELO primenet.com.au) (7795@203.24.36.3) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Aug 1998 16:52:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 733 invoked from network); 10 Aug 1998 16:45:24 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns2.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Aug 1998 16:45:24 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA13109; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:30:48 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:30:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199808101632.RAA32056@diamond.tao.co.uk> Subject: Re: sorting/uniq-ing an array? To: schaefer@brasslantern.com (Bart Schaefer) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:32:55 +0100 (BST) From: "Zefram" Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <980810085553.ZM27103@candle.brasslantern.com> from "Bart Schaefer" at Aug 10, 98 08:55:53 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"vWvug1.0.jC3.t0opr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/4292 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Bart Schaefer wrote: >Is there any difference (internally) between a plain array variable and >a colon-array, other than the set/get functions? Yes. Colon-separated `arrays' are actually scalars. Except for PATH, MANPATH, et al, which are actually scalars reflecting the contents of the true array variables path, manpath, et al. -zefram