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From: mathieu stumpf guntz <psychoslave@culture-libre.org>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Can zsh `else` reserved keyword command be aliased and the lexem itself be repurposed as `fi` keyword command?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 10:36:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <242d0fc9-1afa-e253-7250-2221a081127b@culture-libre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81beaeae-6507-c961-b6fd-5831ba58e045@eastlink.ca>

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Hi Ray,

Le 29/12/2017 à 21:27, Ray Andrews a écrit :
> As for me, the very idea that a reserved word could be aliased seems 
> monstrous. In any information system there must be tokens who's 
> meaning is absolute.  How you guys can begin to make it possible to 
> parse such things is beyond me, it seems like black magic.
Our monstrous black spells will turn all your beliefs in absolute 
relativity, thou mere creature of flesh. ;)
> But I am curious, what does it mean to say that an interpreted program 
> is incomplete?  I mean, unclosed quotes and such things are clearly 
> incomplete, but other than that?
Well, any peace of code which can not, through a given grammar, be 
turned into an actual set of instructions which once run will either 
terminate or run for an undetermined period. Of course this is a rather 
sparse explanation :)

Witchly,
psychoslave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-30  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-28 15:07 mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-28 15:19 ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-29  8:47   ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-29 10:51     ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-29 19:15       ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-29 19:29         ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-29 19:49           ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-29 20:27             ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-29 23:45               ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-30  1:07                 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-30  9:50                   ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-30 10:05                     ` Frank Terbeck
2017-12-30 17:22                   ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-30 22:06                     ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-30 23:00                       ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-30 17:16                 ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-30 22:23                   ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-30 23:06                     ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-30 23:32                       ` mathieu stumpf guntz
2017-12-30  9:36               ` mathieu stumpf guntz [this message]
2017-12-30 17:39                 ` Ray Andrews
2017-12-29 22:59       ` Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)
2017-12-29  8:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-12-29 10:24   ` mathieu stumpf guntz

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