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Re: A way to untie -T vars?

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 8:55 AM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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.

There's this (unclear if "graceful"):

% typeset -a FOO=($FOO) foo=($foo)

This effectively unsets both variables and then immediately resets
them to their previous values ... except that it also converts the
scalar into a one-element array.  For most purposes that will work the
same, but not always.
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