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Re: copying an array

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Dominik Vogt <vogt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
> Is there a specific reason why typeset cannot initialize arrays?
>

In zsh, "typeset" is not a syntactic keyword, it's just an ordinary builtin
command.  So its arguments must follow the standard metacharacter,
word-break, and quoting rules that apply to the arguments of any command.
 Parenthesized array-assignment syntax can't be used, and unlike "set" the
arguments of "typeset" after the first are already given different
semantics so they can't be interpreted as values of the array.
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