color

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart, all:

Trying to get  rid of the calls to typeset, I'm experimenting with 
variations of the second line here:

...

VARIABLES+="${parameters[$1]} $( typeset -m -- ${(b)1} )"
VARIABLES+="${parameters[$1]} $1=${(Pq+)1}"

...

... there are only very minor differences except in one case and that's 
'color':

2 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 0 $ . v; v _v_a* color

H     color = ( [00]=none [01]=bold [02]=faint [03]=standout 
[04]=underline [05]=blink  ...
H     color = 'none normal bg-blue 31 bold no-standout bg-magenta faint 
no-underline bg ...
Al    _v_abrev = ( sed -re 's/(^[^ ]*) ([^=]*)=(.*)/\1  \2 = \3/' -e 
's/integer[ |-]/I/ ...
Al    _v_abrev = 'sed -re s/(^[^ ]*) ([^=]*)=(.*)/\1  \2 = \3/ -e 
s/integer[ |-]/I/ -e  ...

... the second line doesn't show the parentheses around arrays and the 
way of quoting the 'sed' string is slightly different, but no matter.  
However the 'color' param prints completely differently, and no 
variation on the second line changes that.  Also, the color/colour param 
seems to be the only variable that has this issue.  No other param shows 
what look like indexes "[00]" that way.  All printing methods I know of 
besides typeset -m show the second version of 'color' but it looks plain 
wrong, the typeset version is 'obviously' correct.   The untruncated 
'color':


3 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 2 $ print -r $color
none normal bg-blue 31 bold no-standout bg-magenta faint no-underline 
bg-cyan standout no-blink bg-white underline 33 41 01 blink no-reverse 
bg-default 27 no-conceal reverse conceal 30 31 08 39 02 32 24 45 35 05 
34 30 39 47 black 23 red green 43 yellow 36 blue magenta 37 cyan 03 
white 44 35 default 40 28 07 46 04 33 37 40 22 34 42 00 30 30 25 49 
bg-black 36 32 bg-red bg-green bg-yellow

... completely strange.  Why is 'color' unique in this way?  Can I do 
anything about it?  Without 'typeset' the function runs 4X faster, so I 
prefer the second line above if possible.  Even simply as a logic 
problem  can't see how the two displays of 'color' are related but of 
course they must be.