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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:26:59 +0200
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Subject: Re: A tip: a technique to limit the # of global variables
To: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:21 AM Sebastian Gniazdowski
<sgniazdowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> when writing a plugin one often needs to keep a state during the Zsh
> session. To do this it is natural to use global parameters. However,
> when the number of the parameters grows one might want to limit it.

What are the advantages of having fewer global parameters? Why is it
better to have this:

    typeset -gA PLGMAP=(foo 42 bar hello)

Than this:

    typeset -gi PLGMAP_foo=42
    typeset -g  PLGMAP_bar=hello

Roman.