From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 20808 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2021 15:32:40 -0000 Received: from zero.zsh.org (2a02:898:31:0:48:4558:7a:7368) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 2 Jan 2021 15:32:40 -0000 ARC-Seal: i=1; cv=none; a=rsa-sha256; d=zsh.org; s=rsa-20200801; t=1609601560; b=JdBNJHeADTEeaGS1Snbjl1clAPUmAD2qcwOVAHki8A340CXBdreLaPcfOC7EyLOrMFUXV6uy/Q 8mp2NxyFrdRXVZ8rcg9NFk6sk5bs3aTTuqor24rhGV7n/teKD5jT3GHnZ8foypYQQ+EM6LD1/G jrv78C1Bd+D1M8+MmB1+AjFGgwWPLAHzwC2A5TRbc4dKZE+hEg2mMaZ85RZEn2Ft12sTYiZxcb n1Pam3fWfvJl2GdK+crWlqcuSuxoHf67kxbt/hhHJleQzVHF5pq8XdxFPSG6tYZeCcPYMPhSG9 d9YBPJJ8NpQnwqrxZxbo0jdcqzLuTb+GQzek8abtEoVmSw==; ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; zsh.org; iprev=pass (relay9-d.mail.gandi.net) smtp.remote-ip=217.70.183.199; dmarc=none header.from=chazelas.org; arc=none ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=zsh.org; s=rsa-20200801; t=1609601560; bh=JBNmvnALyoc1Y8WbKih6e7ACOR6sVxsd+WQjUHbgXW8=; h=List-Archive:List-Owner:List-Post:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Help: List-Id:Sender:In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:DKIM-Signature; b=F1/0pqy+JJ5xvc52F6Asgdtozrw1L87zKrwJySAjki90R396kMALyVf48SbIRGv2npV9334F49 Esmo2RguR7cao6by8Rg4fZU8X2gr6kxz5IiyVil3PG9u/gzQcJvBqV6WBdI/ICHAgT6+24Hvry pGxyzVao6R1uuwFzminp6TTrEFSTHdxsx01vJOKtJzzt9ncpd6oMwAfGdiVFCCg+PcY8zi04br 0hINXxBv4m4x2Lzs5W2IVYBQavGCKDsa0hM291eEKLnJVC+KdHtFuyDHM5LcMrUti7/fF4BQIV 2j3Y6kGaftP+7odkFc+MUAiUgXlGTZ4RISAkgvp89MaUZg==; DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zsh.org; s=rsa-20200801; h=List-Archive:List-Owner:List-Post:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Id:Sender:In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding :Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date: Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender :Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID; bh=U1UFY0aZXu2+mfNGjJv9gBCBkA0IKAlwKMaXg4Ezxwk=; b=b+sdIEHPh4d05duHKVXJ4G838u OavV0KmwMlJV4d4fmjfpzPl9CwY0t8zmxs7cavShv9Zf37smegUC7YzF2tnXfbFR7IfJVY+jz4W6O /COPKYiCNzH7g9C9QnNV/ZuLRWG8O7Gcp99zdTwn6GQT+gcxbUAh79OCmOqb0fOEvxgpDVGJSwAEM 75TXHqQiKc0sfrtsAKtucIJph3BEMR9Yv5NG2ixhlXxWDAlNmsL0W8XUfohfedpzYR7X2V2nF+R0g 0hGxOkMiV4jm3Z2RRRCq/vnLkB1MLnFUBimCROX7uvKAxIvfXCU2/jMJDkqqvC06441tcKKFEZJGB ABgUBH8w==; Received: from authenticated user by zero.zsh.org with local id 1kvitU-00096h-GJ; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 15:32:40 +0000 Authentication-Results: zsh.org; iprev=pass (relay9-d.mail.gandi.net) smtp.remote-ip=217.70.183.199; dmarc=none header.from=chazelas.org; arc=none Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.199]:54179) by zero.zsh.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) id 1kvit8-0008jt-VP; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 15:32:19 +0000 X-Originating-IP: 94.10.124.211 Received: from chazelas.org (unknown [94.10.124.211]) (Authenticated sender: stephane@chazelas.org) by relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EFC48FF802; Sat, 2 Jan 2021 15:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 15:32:17 +0000 From: Stephane Chazelas To: Ray Andrews Cc: Zsh Users Subject: Re: syntactic trivia Message-ID: <20210102153217.xkpqakxgh7ulikqr@chazelas.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ray Andrews , Zsh Users References: <565cd2e7-c999-5735-4089-a56870713432@eastlink.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <565cd2e7-c999-5735-4089-a56870713432@eastlink.ca> X-Seq: 26294 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: 2021-01-02 06:57:32 -0800, Ray Andrews: [...] >     [ true ] && do-this\    # No comments here, please. >              || do-that > > I wonder how much trouble allowing that would be.  Probably written in stone > that it will never happen, still, it's an obvious exception and I'd guess it > would only take five minutes to code, the parser just throws out any comment > before throwing out the backslash and the newline.  A tiny luxury. [...] You can write it: true && do-this || # comment do-that \ followed by a space is a quoted space like ' '. -- Stephane