From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: lexing
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 03:33:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151130033348.GJ2504@tarsus.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <565BB016.6020905@eastlink.ca>
Ray Andrews wrote on Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 18:10:30 -0800:
> On 11/29/2015 10:07 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> >The form you're using (#something), is only not-a-comment in pattern
> >or filename-generation context, so $(# this IS a comment).
>
> When will I run out of things that astonish me about zsh syntax?
> What sort of need would there be to put a comment inside " $(#...) "
> ? So that's a comment but " (#b) " is not a comment ... sometimes,
> but don't bet on it.
For the same reason as always — to document things for the next reader:
echo $( # Use a subshell because foo chokes if isatty(1)
foo
)
I don't think Bart mentioned the subshell syntax:
( # this is a comment
echo 42 )
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-29 15:24 lexing Ray Andrews
2015-11-29 17:13 ` lexing ZyX
2015-11-29 18:07 ` lexing Bart Schaefer
2015-11-30 2:10 ` lexing Ray Andrews
2015-11-30 3:33 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2015-11-30 4:20 ` lexing Ray Andrews
2015-11-30 4:47 ` lexing Ray Andrews
2015-11-30 16:23 ` lexing Bart Schaefer
2015-11-30 16:50 ` lexing Ray Andrews
2015-12-04 19:15 ` master class Ray Andrews
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