Zsh Mailing List Archive Messages sorted by: Reverse Date, Date, Thread, Author

Re: A way to untie -T vars?

X-seq: zsh-users 28689
From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: A way to untie -T vars?
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 08:55:36 -0800
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/28689>
In-reply-to: <CAKc7PVDEmKnY9TiYwaAgvzXEqNhLwZo46paUPjJOz9HsU3_djg@mail.gmail.com>
List-id: <zsh-users.zsh.org>
References: <CAKc7PVDEmKnY9TiYwaAgvzXEqNhLwZo46paUPjJOz9HsU3_djg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 8:38 AM Sebastian Gniazdowski
<sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> maybe there's a graceful way of untying the vars?

There's not.

% typeset +T FOO
typeset: use unset to remove tied variables

> 'm using -U flag to quickly uniquify the scalar, however this method is problematic as the array vars are left over.

I don't follow what this is intended to accomplish?

% typeset -T FOO foo
% foo=(a b a c b e)
% typeset -U FOO
% print $foo
a b c e
%

Follow-Ups:
- Re: A way to untie -T vars?
  - From: Roman Perepelitsa
- Re: A way to untie -T vars?
  - From: Bart Schaefer

References:
- A way to untie -T vars?
  - From: Sebastian Gniazdowski

Messages sorted by: Reverse Date, Date, Thread, Author