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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 16:09:10 -0800
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Subject: Re: More rabbit-holes with unset variables
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 3:45 PM Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 4:41 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> >
> > I mean the simplest form of what zsh refers to as "scalar" internally.
> > Yes, that's ordinarily representable in C by "char[]", but in the
> > abstract that doesn't matter.
>
> Strings in C are typically declared as "char *", not "char []".

How strings in C are typically declared and how scalars are
represented in zsh are not the same thing.

I deliberately chose to write char[] to demonstrate that zsh scalars
are never null pointers.