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From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Ray Andrews" <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: why is eval needed?
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 14:50:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3fa3f7ff-1733-4730-a62f-dd0e138c3b72@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <352823cc-954a-fa79-d830-d69d593b1c02@eastlink.ca>

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022, at 2:12 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
>      Excellent.  Yes, that's understandable.  Main thing is to realize 
> that 'tree' want's two arguments there, not the intuitive single argument.

A "single argument" is not intuitive at all.  You would not run

    tree '-L 2'

or

    tree -L\ 2

so it does not make any sense to think that "tree" wants a single
argument there.

-- 
vq


  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-19 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-19 14:34 Ray Andrews
2022-11-19 14:43 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-11-19 17:02   ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-19 17:10     ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-11-19 18:02     ` Clinton Bunch
2022-11-19 18:18       ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-11-19 16:48 ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-11-19 19:12   ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-19 19:50     ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2022-11-19 22:21       ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-20  8:55         ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-11-20 13:47           ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-20 15:08             ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-11-20 16:27               ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-20 20:16                 ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-11-20 22:31                   ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-21  2:13                     ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-20 22:47                   ` Ray Andrews

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