Subject: Re: Amusing (?) behavior of zsh/parameter specials
From: Peter Stephenson <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:26:11 +0000
List-Id: Zsh Workers List <zsh-workers.zsh.org>

On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 09:07:36 -0800
Bart Schaefer <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Maybe autoloaded parameters should always be hidden until they load?

That's definitely arguable, yes.  -p and its features are there as a
concession to POSIX-style order, in order to make it easy to restore
parameters the user has defined, and autoloaded parameters, whether
disappearing or not, don't fit that picture.

pws