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[Dropped bugs.debian.org]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Wayne Davison wrote:

> Also, feel free to suggest how to improve it (for instance, I'd like to 
> know if the eval statements can be replaced with something else).

Let's see ...

                eval val=\${$var}

... I believe that's ...

		val=${(P)var}

... and ...

            eval $var=\$val

... can be ...

	    : ${(P)var::=$val}

... but I'm not sure that last is any better than the eval.