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Subject: Re: x=(foo ; bar) array assignments with embedded semicolons
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On 11/18/2015 10:47 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Nov 18, 10:20am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> }
> } I don't think it's facetious at all.  Unquoted ";" is a separator,
> } whether in an array or not.
> 
> Nevertheless it is a syntax error in e.g. bash to use ";" there.
> 
And that is what i assumed zsh would do. Since the only syntactical mention of ;
in the man pages i saw was as a list terminator; leaving the incomplete array definition.

Since it is intentional, could it be added to the man pages?