Thanks for responding! I searched a bit but hadn't made that connection. I
can work with that.

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 2:44 PM Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@zsh.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022, at 5:11 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> > Environments tested:
> > - macOS 12.4, M1 chip, zsh 5.8.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin21.0)
> > - Ubuntu 20.04.4, zsh 5.8 (x86_64-ubuntu-linux-gnu)
> >
> > If I repeat 'export FOO' to mark an environment variable not give it a
> > value, in bash it consistently does not show up in 'env':
> > $ export FOO
> >
> > $ env | grep FOO
> >
> > $ export FOO
> >
> > $ env | grep FOO
> >
> >
> > but in zsh the 2nd invocation will set it to an empty string:
> > $ export FOO
> >
> > $ env | grep FOO
> >
> > $ export FOO
> >            $ env | grep FOO
> >
> > FOO=
>
> This was discussed in workers/47531 and the ensuing thread.
>
> https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2020/msg01350.html
>
> It was resolved in zsh 5.9 with the introduction of the TYPESET_TO_UNSET
> option, but as per workers/47545, "[t]his is a long standing feature
> of zsh, so the default behaviour is not going to change."
>
> https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2020/msg01364.html
>
>
> > This is an issue only because a project I'm building uses an empty
> > export for documentation, and it makes that project annoying to work
> > with.
>
> Depending on a variable to be exported but unset is a curious design
> decision to say the least.
>
> --
> vq
>