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Please extend `typeset -U'
- X-seq: zsh-workers 2256
- From: Fung-Chai Lim <fclim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (The Z-shell)
- Subject: Please extend `typeset -U'
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 01:25:06 +0800 (SGT)
Hi,
Currently, `typeset -U' only works for arrays and special parameters
known to zsh.
Many programs use PATH-like environmental variables; eg, GNU info
(INFOPATH), Sun's dynamic linker (LD_LIBRARY_PATH).
It would be nice if `typeset -U' also works for these var as well.
However, it is not possible to know beforehand what programs are
out there in the world, and the env-var names that they use.
So, how about if the name of the env-var has a `PATH' suffix,
`typeset -U' would treat the env-var as special?
Or, better yet, a new `set -D var' to indicate that `var' has a
dual:
set -AD var ==> the dual is VAR
set -D VAR ==> the dual is var
The lowercase version is an array while the uppercase variable is
a colon-separated list of words.
Thanks.
Regards,
fclim.
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