Re: [9front] [PATCH] Update hpost to use -r header like hget

[sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de>]

16.12.2020 20:50:31 ori@eigenstate.org:
> Quoth sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de>:
>> '-r '^$headers
>
> won't work. rc doesn't re-expand arguments; it more or less
> only splits words when evaluating `{}, so '-r foo' ends up
> as one unit when you do the concatenation: [...]

That's indeed very interesting. I noticed that when playing around with 
it. I also noticed that it worked when encapsulating the whole thing in 
another `{}, but then you probably have issues with quoted arguments with 
spaces ('hello: world').

I think what I did was like this, but I don't know if that makes any 
sense:

h='-r<tab>'^$headers
u=`‘<tab>'{ifs='<tab>'; echo -n $h}

The whole thing is indeed an interesting challenge, especially because rc 
is handling items and lists so special. Spaces don't necessarily separate 
strings, items with spaces are not always quoted, etc. For example, the 
visual string "this is a string" is not always a list with 3 strings. It 
could also be a list with two or only one string.

Btw I really enjoyed your interview I listened to yesterday.

sirjofri

(Sorry ori for double posting this to you. It was meant for the list)