From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24580 invoked by alias); 30 Dec 2017 09:37:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: X-Seq: 23030 Received: (qmail 26401 invoked by uid 1010); 30 Dec 2017 09:37:04 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mail.epopia.com by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(137.74.101.162):SA:0(-1.9/5.0):. Processed in 2.003084 secs); 30 Dec 2017 09:37:04 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: psychoslave@culture-libre.org X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | Subject: Re: Can zsh `else` reserved keyword command be aliased and the lexem itself be repurposed as `fi` keyword command? To: Ray Andrews , zsh-users@zsh.org References: <71ef7896-39f8-66fe-f8f8-c7c81b11e2ce@culture-libre.org> <918acbfa-b637-1d13-816b-c6edee0afa5c@culture-libre.org> <81beaeae-6507-c961-b6fd-5831ba58e045@eastlink.ca> From: mathieu stumpf guntz Message-ID: <242d0fc9-1afa-e253-7250-2221a081127b@culture-libre.org> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 10:36:57 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <81beaeae-6507-c961-b6fd-5831ba58e045@eastlink.ca> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------54CBB3E7B2FEA64301FBD059" Content-Language: en-US --------------54CBB3E7B2FEA64301FBD059 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 --------------54CBB3E7B2FEA64301FBD059--