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Re: Exporting arrays

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh users list)
Subject: Re: Exporting arrays
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 10:01:45 +0100
In-reply-to: "Adam Spiers"'s message of "Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:16:03 MET." <19980111181603.60292@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Adam Spiers wrote:
> % unset foo
> % export foo=(a b c)
> % typeset | grep zzz 
> exported foo='(a b c)'
> 
> Presumably there's a decent reason for this behaviour; would
> someone be good enough to explain it to me?

Geoff explained most of it, but didn't point out that in fact the export
command doesn't create arrays at all, because there's no special syntax
for it:  it just treats "foo=(a b c)" as a string.  (At least, I don't
think he pointed that out.  I've just got back am reading through my
mail rather rapidly.  I've got about 100 different ways of becoming a
millionaire in a month.  This is worse than Reader's Digest.)

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References:
- Exporting arrays
  - From: Adam Spiers

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