On 09/12/2015 07:36 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
Quite so. However tiresome it is to read the variable, I can see that a precise order would need to be defined. I had thought that the above idea would apply to any variable that references files and directories but I see that that wouldn't be a good idea. A bad idea demolished is a particularly effective lesson. I learned quite a bit today.... one might imagine some shorthand '/usr/share/zsh/functions/**/' One might, but then the handling of $fpath would be inconsistent with $path, $module_path, $manpath, etc.; and more importantly, the order of entries in the array is signficant in case the same file name (with different implementation) appears in more than one directory.