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Re: compinit as function?

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: compinit as function?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:38:02 +0200
In-reply-to: ""Andrej Borsenkow""'s message of "Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:23:35 DFT." <009201be8671$9e448670$21c9ca95@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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"Andrej Borsenkow" wrote:
> Is there any real reason, why compinit cannot be a function?

One reason is that it wastes memory, since it's quite large and you only
use it once.

> Another possibility is to add the global flag to typeset: typeset -g. Can it
> be useful in other cases?

I've been thinking about this.  It should be easy to add.

$testhash is just what it's name suggests.  It was added because there's
currently no other way of checking that special associative arrays work
properly (in particular being restored after `testhash=... cmd').  It will
eventually disappear.

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