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From: khatar@phear.org
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: would it be nice to support =<< ? (not the haskell one)
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 18:02:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161109180219.GA28703@aurora-borealis.phear.org> (raw)

hello people,

this is a script to render some json elements

	json_elements=()
	read json_elements\[1+$#json_elements] <<.
		{ "user": "$USER", "uid": "$UID" }
	.
	read json_elements\[1+$#json_elements] <<.
		{ "user": "$USER", "uid": "$UID" }
	.
	print "[ ${(j:
	,:)json_elements} ]"

the thing is

	read json_elements\[1+$#json_elements] <<.

is quiet hard to read and i really miss syntaxes
like the perl qq() or the ruby %Q.

would it be possible to get a
would it be smart?

i was thinking of a =<< operator so we could write

	element=<<.
		{ "user": "$USER", "uid": "$UID" }
	.

instead of

	read element <<.
		{ "user": "$USER", "uid": "$UID" }
	.

this would be very convenient to replace this

	read json_elements\[1+$#json_elements] <<.
		{ "user": "$USER", "uid": "$UID" }
	.

by

	json_elements+=<<.
		{ "user": "$USER", "uid": "$UID" }
	.

but is it smart? is it possible?

regards

























             reply	other threads:[~2016-11-09 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-09 18:02 khatar [this message]
2016-11-09 19:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-10  8:15   ` khatar
2016-11-10 16:44     ` Bart Schaefer

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