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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: wrong "export -p" output for exported but not set variables (Was: PATCH: [[ -v varname ]])
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:22:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160915112250.GA16661@chaz.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160915110854.GA10122@chaz.gmail.com>

2016-09-15 12:08:54 +0100, Stephane Chazelas:
[...]
> declared (or exported or marked readonly) with different types
> but not assigned to (at least in zsh, declared/exported
> variables are always given a default value)
[...]

Actually, I was wrong about that and was basing it on the output
of typeset -p.

$ zsh -c 'export a; export -p a'
typeset -x a=''

(BTW, it would be nice to have sh-compatible (POSIX at least) output in:
$ ARGV0=sh zsh -c 'export a; export -p a'
typeset -x a=''
)

$ zsh -c 'export a; printenv a'
$ zsh -c 'export a=; printenv a'

$

$a was not given a default empty value there. It's considered as set though:

$ zsh -c 'export a; echo ${a+foo}'
foo

Which I think breaks POSIX compliance (and no other shell
outputs foo there)..

It's different for "readonly":

$ zsh -c 'readonly a; echo ${a+foo}'
foo
$ ARGV0=sh zsh -c 'readonly a; echo ${a+foo}'

$

-- 
Stephane


  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-16  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-05 21:27 [PATCH] Use == in expressions instead of the deprecated = Teubel György
2016-09-08  8:35 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-09-08 11:16   ` Peter Stephenson
2016-09-08 14:31     ` Stephane Chazelas
2016-09-08 15:06       ` Stephane Chazelas
2016-09-08 15:14       ` Peter Stephenson
2016-09-08 16:39         ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-09-08 18:47           ` Stephane Chazelas
2016-09-09 12:03         ` Vincent Lefevre
     [not found]           ` <CGME20160912143133eucas1p11a4e6916dd70b3ceaa163bf3bddfb007@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2016-09-12 14:31             ` Peter Stephenson
2016-09-09  8:52       ` Stephane Chazelas
2016-09-09  9:31         ` Peter Stephenson
2016-09-09 16:00           ` Stephane Chazelas
2016-09-14 22:01         ` PATCH: [[ -v varname ]] Oliver Kiddle
2016-09-15 10:55           ` Vincent Lefevre
2016-09-16  0:36             ` Bart Schaefer
2016-09-15 11:08           ` Stephane Chazelas
2016-09-15 11:22             ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
2016-09-09 17:01       ` [PATCH] Use == in expressions instead of the deprecated = Christian Neukirchen
2016-09-09 18:54         ` Stephane Chazelas
2016-09-09 13:05     ` Peter Stephenson

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