syntactic trivia

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

        [ "$case" = 'insensitive' ] && dirs=( (#i)$1*(/N) ) \
                                    || dirs=(     $1*(/N) )

Since '(#i)' is a modifier of the globing would not this be more intuitive?:

    dirs=( $1*(/N#i) )

Just to understand it, I'm wondering why case filtering would be 
syntactically different from the other filters.

Speaking of intuition:

    [ true ] && do-this\    # No comments here, please.
             || do-that

I wonder how much trouble allowing that would be.  Probably written in 
stone that it will never happen, still, it's an obvious exception and 
I'd guess it would only take five minutes to code, the parser just 
throws out any comment before throwing out the backslash and the 
newline.  A tiny luxury.