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From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: db module
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> typeset -A things -S db -f /tmp/newdb
> typeset string -S mapfile -f /tmp/file

Someone suggested tying assocs to functions, so we could add something
like

f() { print $(( $1 * 2 )) }
typeset -A twice -S function -f f
print $f[2]

I'm not sure that there are any useful applications for this though.