[Review Request] Arrays and their usage

[René Neumann <lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi *,

I always feel a little unsure around arrays in zsh. I've currently used 
the following:

   local pkgs=( `makepkg --printsrcinfo | \
                 sed -n -e 's/pkgname = \(.*\)$/\1/p'` ) 

   pkgs=(${pkgs/#/"$DATABASE/"})
   sudo pacman -S $pkgs

Intention: Generate a list of packages, prepend "$DATABASE/", and pass 
each modified package as a separate argument to pacman.

Question: Is this the correct/zshonic way of doing this?
I personally find the change of behavior by adding ( ) too easy to 
overlook. Is there an alternative with ${(...)}?

Thanks,
René