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From: Gert-Jan Vons <vons@ocegr.fr>
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: tilde featuritis alert
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 04:32:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.2.2.19991210102710.00ad3380@mailhost.ocegr.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199912100745.XAA29345@peanut.rakitzis.com>

Byron Rakitzis wrote:

>For better or for worse, rc's grammar allows for multiple temporary
>assignments:
>
>         ; foo=1 bar=2 echo $foo $bar
>         1 2
>         ; echo $foo $bar
>
>So you have to account for that as well.
>
>With sufficient tweaking to the parser and lexer perhaps you could allow
>unquoted '='s in a parameter list, but I tried my hand at it years ago
>and I wasn't able to come up with anything remotely pleasant.

On the other hand:

         ; echo foo=1 bar=2
         syntax error

so it does detect that the assignment is not valid in this case. If it 
just could take the equals-sign as is...


         Gert-Jan
-----
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life,
  but only a fool trusts either of them."
     - P.J. O'Rourke



  reply	other threads:[~1999-12-10 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-12-10  7:45 Byron Rakitzis
1999-12-10  9:32 ` Gert-Jan Vons [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-12-09  7:52 Decklin Foster
1999-12-09  8:26 ` Markus Friedl
1999-12-09  8:52 ` Gert-Jan Vons
1999-12-09 14:20   ` Decklin Foster
1999-12-09 16:48   ` Paul Haahr
1999-12-09 16:27 ` Mark K. Gardner
1999-12-09 22:08 ` kim kubik

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