Re: set temporary environment variables for builtins

[Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 1:27 AM Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2023, at 3:27 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 12:22 PM Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> It does work, in general.
> >
> > Well, no, it doesn't.  It works for parameters that zsh separately
> > considers to be "special", which includes all the LC_* variants.  TZ
> > is not special.
>
> Huh, this is very surprising to me.  I guess I never noticed because
> almost all the variables that can influence builtins (e.g., CDPATH,
> LC_*, OPTIND, etc.) are special.

I am also surprised by this. It does make sense given the
implementation details but it's not how I expected zsh to behave.

Would it make sense to make all parameters that affect builtins
special? Are there parameters other than TZ that affect builtins but
aren't already special?

Roman.