From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: first adventures
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:23:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54556B7D.6070800@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141101211126.4c26682c@pws-pc.ntlworld.com>
On 11/01/2014 02:11 PM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
>
> Perhapse the real point is what you're looking at is an unusual case in
> that you've been passed a piece of raw shell input and you're thinking
> about what it would look like if it wasn't raw any more. This is hairy
> stuff that most people who consider themselves shell language gurus
> probably never have to think about --- extracting bits of semi-parsed
> chunks of input is something most people would do in a language like
> Lisp rather than a shell. So it's not surprising you're a bit
> bamboozled when you're coming to this out of nowhere.
Bamboozled ain't the half of it. But it's ok, what Bart showed me is
quite satisfactory.
I should spend less time speculating. But I wonder if anyone in the
next generation of
zsh users is going to be able to explain, or even understand half of
this stuff. Sheesh,
I thought that as a newbie, a good place to start looking at the code
was where we
first swallow a command line. But that was a long long time ago ;-)
> pws
>
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2014-10-31 18:10 ` Ray Andrews
2014-10-31 19:59 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-11-01 4:26 ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-01 7:51 ` Mikael Magnusson
2014-11-01 16:35 ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-01 18:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-11-01 20:24 ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-01 21:11 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-11-01 23:23 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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