From: Phil Pennock <comet@fysh.org>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@math.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: local arrays
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:58:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990113165807.A10044@fysh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <990113081507.ZM17393@candle.brasslantern.com>; from "Bart Schaefer" on Wed 13 Jan 1999 (8:15 -0800)
Typing away merrily, Bart Schaefer produced the immortal words:
> On Jan 13, 10:12am, Phil Pennock wrote:
> } Is there a way in zsh-3.0.5 (or zsh-3.1.x) to use one command to declare
> } a variable to be both local and an array?
>
> No, there isn't. This is even documented, poorly (a bit better in pws-4,
> because it was part of my rewrite of the `typeset' documentation).
>
> Why do you need to do this? The variable will assume array-ness upon the
> first array assignment to it.
Cleanliness. Obviousness of purpose.
The scripts I write are liable to be modified by others. So the purpose
of stuff should be clear. Nice clean explicit statements of what a
variable is help. So integers get declared as such, etc. And if that
adds type-checking, all the better.
I just prefer zsh to perl ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-01-13 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-13 10:12 Phil Pennock
1999-01-13 16:15 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-01-13 16:58 ` Phil Pennock [this message]
1999-01-13 16:57 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-02-06 15:41 Local arrays Atte Peltomäki
2013-02-06 16:01 ` Peter Stephenson
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