Re: creating user defined special parameters?

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On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> } is there a way, from within the shell, to create a special parameter?
>
> No; zsh has not yet implemented ksh "discipline functions," nor the 
> compound-type semantics of ksh's "typeset -T".
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it's not my desire to emulate ksh's discipline functions or compound 
variables, i just want a way to define a "simple" variable as a function.

basically i want to do thing like roll my own $RANDOM and $EPOCHSECONDS. 
i'm not seeing how that has anything to do with parsing compound 
variables...?


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