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Re: array prepend

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: array prepend
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:51:41 +0000
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:38:13 +0100
Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you dig out the mailing list discussion from when += was added you'll
> see that the main reason there isn't a prepend is that we couldn't think
> of suitable syntax that would be backward compatible. -= for example
> isn't possible because a - character is valid in an identifier.

I was thinking about /=.  I started looking at it once but got bored
with all the varieties of parameter type.

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