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Curiosity: zstyle -a vs. zstyle -h
- X-seq: zsh-workers 11432
- From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Curiosity: zstyle -a vs. zstyle -h
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 08:37:35 +0000
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I just did a little experiment. It appears that `zstyle -h pat style name'
is exactly equivalent to `typeset -A name; zstyle -a pat style name'.
This seems just a tad inconsistent; if `zstyle -h' is going to force the
name to be an associative array, shouldn't `zstyle -a' force the name to
be an ordinary array? (And shouldn't it be -A rather than -h? I thought
we only used -h when -A was already taken, as with `stat' (and there it's
-H).)
An equally good (perhaps even better) alternative would be to drop the -h
option entirely and require the array to be declared if one wants it to be
an assoc.
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