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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Idiom for booleans
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:09:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <110812200942.ZM8287@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAELbujo=KyJyzzo1vW+ydLVA=PddguguXkBr7yN3zvmOgmYFpQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Aug 12,  5:24pm, Micah Elliott wrote:
}
}   % (( 0 ))
}   ((: command not found
}   % (( 1 ))  # ok

This has to be something in your configuration.  Try it with zsh -f ?

torch% (( 0 ))
torch% ((
math> ))
torch% (( 0 )) || echo nope
nope
torch% 

This one I'm not sure is intentional:

torch% (( )) || echo oops
oops
torch% 

} I'm trying to figure out if the $+ expansion, as in ${+param}, is
} worth making use of. What idiom do you use for it? I could see it as a
} boolean for testing flags.

Yes, that's a common usage.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-13  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-13  0:24 Micah Elliott
2011-08-13  3:09 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2011-08-13  5:26   ` Micah Elliott
2011-08-15  1:11     ` Bart Schaefer
2011-08-15  8:28       ` Julien Nicoulaud
     [not found]   ` <CAELbujqBkE_zUG9M2+DS4mv=TxxKT=Rq4vH2fhXsbJ235B4nAA__26422.7002081045$1313213450$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-13 10:37     ` Štěpán Němec

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