also sprach Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> [2009.05.05.1805 +0200]:
> Unfortunately we don't handle arrays as values of associate arrays
> (yet?) but you can do something like

Aha.

pulse:~|master|% declare -A foo; foo[Clint]=(1 2 3)
zsh: foo: attempt to set slice of associative array

:(

> set -- -a1 -a2; zparseopts 'a+:=arr'; print -l $arr
> 
> although this seems to set arr=(1 -a 2), which is not what I
> expected to happen.

Yeah, that's a bit weird, isn't it? Should I clone the bug?

As for the original bug, maybe just insering $IFS[0] between
elements would do?

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