From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: here document within a switch fails to parse.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:28:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210112132827.GB1039@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14e91024-d65b-e3a0-f5f6-8f0e55d40e8f@eastlink.ca>
Ray Andrews wrote on Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 12:16:03 -0800:
> On 2021-01-07 7:32 a.m., Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Do consider treating the language as the independent variable and your
> > expectations as the dependent one, rather than the other way around.
> I'll bend it to my will as much as I can, however 90% of changes since I
> started have been me getting used to zsh rather than the other way around.
> Still, you don't know what you don't know and however naive, my comment
> blocks do work. If there's a crash and burn coming up I'm sure I'll burn.
I reiterate the fourth paragraph of the grandparent post.
The parenthetical describes a specific failure mode.
> >
> > The construct you use has side-effects you've overlooked, which mean
> > your fashion of comments will backfire in a way that you don't see yet.
> I'm prepared to find out the hard way. Guys like me suffer.
Well, you've picked your poison, then. I'll only add that what you'll
"find out the hard way" is more than just a case in which your "idiom"
breaks.
> > By the way, I wonder if the reason we're having this thread is that it
> > hasn't occurred to you that your $EDITOR may have facilities for
> > commenting or uncommenting multiple lines.
> There's an interesting idea! My editor doesn't but that would be quite a
> feature.
Did you actually look?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-12 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-06 15:13 Ray Andrews
2021-01-06 16:20 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-06 17:17 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-06 17:58 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-01-06 19:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-07 7:55 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-07 15:32 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-07 20:16 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-08 15:27 ` Karsten Borgwaldt
2021-01-08 15:53 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-01-08 17:13 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-08 18:06 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-01-08 19:39 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-08 19:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-09 0:45 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-09 17:28 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-12 13:28 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2021-01-12 14:45 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-13 16:17 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-13 21:57 ` Pier Paolo Grassi
2021-01-13 23:39 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-13 23:54 ` Lawrence Velázquez
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