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Abuse ZSH Parameter Expansion to Expand GNU-Style Arguments

GNU-Style Command Line Argument Expansion #!/bin/zsh setopt extendedglob typeset -a cli=( ${${${(z)${${(qqq)argv[@]}:-}/#(#m)\"-[^-]?*/${$...

This method offers exactly one benefit: the target platform I was working with for this project was mingw under Windows and, like WSL1, it had this very painful performance issue when a shell had to create a sub-shell -- basically, any time you$(run something) and that means "if your function returns anything except for an integer", it's going to have a serious cost to place that into a variable the convenient way. But the code that made up the solution was never given a proper place in my git server -- it was rarely accessible up north due to outages. Outside of that my job focus went from what was called Microsoft Skype for Business 2016 at the time to a job where I got to put my fingers in code in people's homes through a few IoT projects, doing a lightweight 3D tool in three.js (in React), some fun with federated identity with gulp XML(Azure AD B2C), and lately I've been writing code for the Buzzword "Generative AI."

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