Re: forbidden variable in for loop.

[Danek Duvall <duvall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ray Andrews wrote:

>   for a in *; do echo $a; done
> 
> All fine. but:
> 
>   for i in *; do echo $i; done
> 
> Gives me a list of zeros. Followed by "zsh: bad floating point constant"
> 
> It works fine for any letter of the alphabet so far tested except
> 'i'.  For the life of me I can't guess what it is that makes 'i'
> special. Any thoughts?

You probably did a "typeset -E i" at some point in the past.  "unset i"
should get it working again.

Danek