From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14624 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2013 21:46:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 17559 Received: (qmail 2387 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2013 21:46:08 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received-SPF: neutral (ns1.primenet.com.au: 74.125.82.179 is neither permitted nor denied by SPF record at ntlworld.com) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:x-proxyuser-ip:date:from:to:subject:message-id :in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=/HJymk5iigosbhZ/1w9j3sisubP4iM3r/DW8f+cY0+U=; b=VxnMksVLecqETHaxXnSbJ8tkvcmd26Pf+yPKYJTuYTze81jt6v8b1iadbBg2aDQm1z DLt8+0M0YWbCw0Ei85y4u2BBnqqk/Mkk7pW2ZceAOVOlFRXHPuyLN9cJPYkubKcG+6oK dKWdNL6vKtU7UJyknqzxtHk52Z659OZO6/5/ScqYFGto/RxZ4h5VudDmkju2uRw3x/wS yTMXsNgk2G2wMNMLP3EVQo8EX7rpu8khW3sdksy7WXW+/ztwfcFFV5OtVL6VtAxcLYS3 bHHnsF7SvmasgLeKbM2Dy0YAgdvhq1C8wCJgoNjx+IZVo/F1ya2DD8K5wqxpqwY3W5zx e5HQ== X-Received: by 10.180.107.97 with SMTP id hb1mr8530385wib.4.1358103105052; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:51:45 -0800 (PST) X-ProxyUser-IP: 86.26.6.143 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:51:41 +0000 From: Peter Stephenson To: Oliver Kiddle , zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: array prepend Message-ID: <20130113185141.4394d532@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <22417.1357954693@thecus.kiddle.eu> References: <50EFB80D.30002@sergio.spb.ru> <22417.1357954693@thecus.kiddle.eu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk7xHueEcQ40CRVEMAXeIsTh1pJ+96BppFPqvkB4TvoqW2vP18U5OVhpOPixPi2qQFHoihF On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:38:13 +0100 Oliver Kiddle 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 Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/