Re: Bug#526924: zparseopts: should use lists as values in assoc array

[Clint Adams <schizo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 03:01:24PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> piper:~|master|% set -- -a1 -a2; zparseopts -A arr a+:; echo $arr[-a]
> 12
> 
> Unfortunately, this greatly reduces the usefulness of the builtin,
> since it's impossible to tell from the hash value whether the
> options where -a1 -a2 or -a12.
> 
> It would be better if the value pointed to by the hash would contain
> a list, such that $arr[-a] in the above would be (1 2).

Unfortunately we don't handle arrays as values of associate arrays
(yet?) but you can do something like

set -- -a1 -a2; zparseopts 'a+:=arr'; print -l $arr

although this seems to set arr=(1 -a 2), which is not what I
expected to happen.