On Mar 4, 9:09pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
} Subject: Re: how to truncate an array
}
} What I mean is how the underlying C code knows to terminate
} the array. Come to think of it, there must be a null inserted, cuz
} that's how C does things
Zsh does happen to manage shell arrays as C array-of-pointers but as
I said before, in the shell syntax/semantics they function more like
linked lists. Because the shell language is "higher level" than C,
the internals have to deal with all sorts of other stuff like memory
management. Bash, for example, does use linked lists internally to
represent arrays.