Writing Zsh "libraries"

Writing Zsh "libraries"

[Nikolai Weibull]

As I have quite a few utilities written in pure Zsh, I've created a
small library of functions that I often (re)use.  The question is how
to store such a library.  Currently, I've just placed them in
$ZDOTDIR/functions/zap and then added that directory to $fpath.  That
works fine, but I need to modify $fpath and prefix functions with
"zap-".  Then I had the "brilliant" idea of removing the prefixes -
thus "zap-init" becomes "init" - and load them in the following manner
instead:

autoload -U zap/init

Then I simply call the function as "zap/init" ($ZDOTDIR/functions is
in my $fpath as well).

This works and seems to be quite a nice way to handle namespacing, but
perhaps I'm missing something vital here.

Any comments?

  nikolai

Re: Writing Zsh "libraries"

[Marc Chantreux]

Hi,

> Then I simply call the function as "zap/init" ($ZDOTDIR/functions is
> in my $fpath as well).

I'm writting my own libs and dream about a czan. I think your idea is
great so i'll use it.


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Re: Writing Zsh "libraries"

[Peter Stephenson]

"Nikolai Weibull" wrote:
> autoload -U zap/init
> 
> Then I simply call the function as "zap/init" ($ZDOTDIR/functions is
> in my $fpath as well).
> 
> This works and seems to be quite a nice way to handle namespacing, but
> perhaps I'm missing something vital here.
> 
> Any comments?

I don't suppose anyone intended this to work, but the handling of paths
internally is generally fairly straightforward, so there's no reason why
you shouldn't use it if it works.

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Re: Writing Zsh "libraries"

[Deliverable Mail]

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Can it become standardized behavior then?

Cheers,
Alexy


On 6/20/06, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
>
> "Nikolai Weibull" wrote:
> > autoload -U zap/init
> >
> > Then I simply call the function as "zap/init" ($ZDOTDIR/functions is
> > in my $fpath as well).
> >
> > This works and seems to be quite a nice way to handle namespacing, but
> > perhaps I'm missing something vital here.
> >
> > Any comments?
>
> I don't suppose anyone intended this to work, but the handling of paths
> internally is generally fairly straightforward, so there's no reason why
> you shouldn't use it if it works.
>
> --
> Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
> CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
> Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
>
>
> To access the latest news from CSR copy this link into a web browser:
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