From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: array prepend
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:51:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130113185141.4394d532@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22417.1357954693@thecus.kiddle.eu>
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:38:13 +0100
Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> If you dig out the mailing list discussion from when += was added you'll
> see that the main reason there isn't a prepend is that we couldn't think
> of suitable syntax that would be backward compatible. -= for example
> isn't possible because a - character is valid in an identifier.
I was thinking about /=. I started looking at it once but got bored
with all the varieties of parameter type.
--
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-13 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-11 6:58 sergio
2013-01-12 1:38 ` Oliver Kiddle
2013-01-13 18:51 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2013-01-14 4:48 ` rahul
2013-01-14 15:32 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-01-14 18:48 ` rahul
2013-01-17 4:34 ` Bart Schaefer
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