From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Interpret Parameter Value at Time of Function Definition
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 16:17:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504628227.2542836.1095967968.32944CE9@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACeGjnVYHHZHrGcZzMeaEq-feeuG9XShK5AM9XzAs8t+W6xCZA@mail.gmail.com>
Vin Shelton wrote on Tue, 05 Sep 2017 09:47 -0400:
> $ aaa=bbb
> $ function t {
> print aaa = \"$aaa\"
> }
>
> I would like to interpret $aaa at read time, so that:
>
> aaa=ccc t
>
> would print:
>
> aaa = "bbb"
Declare aaa local inside the function:
t() {
local aaa=bbb
typeset -p aaa
}
aaa=ccc t
... but then, if t() changes $aaa the changes won't be visible outside t().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-05 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-05 13:47 Vin Shelton
2017-09-05 16:17 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2017-09-05 20:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-09-05 18:21 ` Martijn Dekker
2017-09-06 3:08 ` Ray Andrews
2017-09-06 4:16 ` Bart Schaefer
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