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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:53:01 -0800
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Comments: In reply to Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
        "Re: ${path[@]} in sh mode [was: Segfault with zsh 5.2]" (Jan 23,  1:08am)
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Subject: Re: ${path[@]} in sh mode [was: Segfault with zsh 5.2]
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On Jan 23,  1:08am, Martijn Dekker wrote:
}
} > If you're in a function context, you can say 'typeset -h path' to hide
} > the specialness of $path and declare a new local of the same name. Eg,
} > one that isn't connected to PATH.
} 
} It would be nice if that worked globally too, and even nicer if it were
} automatically done by 'emulate sh' (or ksh for that matter) and undone
} by 'emulate zsh'. But that might be non-trivial and the developers may
} have other priorities.

It's non-trivial.  The emulate command only deals with setopts, not with
keywords, parameters, etc.