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Re: bug with empty path

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: pws@xxxxxx (Peter Stephenson)
Subject: Re: bug with empty path
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 17:57:58 +0100 (MET)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199611251433.PAA22472@xxxxxxxxxxxx> from Peter Stephenson at "Nov 25, 96 03:33:28 pm"
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Peter Stephenson wrote:
> The lines:
>   path=()
> and
>   PATH=
> have different effects: the first produces an empty path array, the
> second a path with one blank element.  This turns up in the following:

I do not think it is a bug.  Of course other shells couldn't set an empty
path but zsh is better than that.  The path is really an array and the PATH
scalar is just a representation which has this inefficiency.

One may want to use a really empty path sometimes which is best achieved
with path=().

Zoltan

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