Re: Setting $path variable

[Tom Kaczmarski <tkaczma@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Bruce Stephens wrote:

> Yes, I think this is a feature, not a bug.  You should say
> "path=($path)" if you want to keep path as an array.  Perhaps arrayness
> should be more first-class than this, to be intuitive (so to get rid of
> arrayness you'd type 'path="$path"' or something), but the current
> behaviour doesn't seem too bad, IMHO.

I think the difference here is that $PATH and $path are supposed to be 
two different variables.  This is not the scenario you are refering to.


Tom

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