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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Tagged parameters
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 07:30:39 -0700
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On 2023-08-15 01:27, Peter Stephenson wrote:


Saying they have "no special meaning to the shell" is perhaps not a
100% helpful description. since the fact of just having this option
associated with them is itself "special" in the way shown above.

Thanks Peter. "tags have no special meaning to the shell" isanti-information. Perhaps something like: "When a parameter is tagged,it changes in no way except that the command: 'typeset -t' will make alist of all tagged parameters along with their values."

pws

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