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
next prev 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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