From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18325 invoked by alias); 30 Nov 2015 04:20:42 -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: X-Seq: 21016 Received: (qmail 18859 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2015 04:20:42 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=T/C1EZ6Q c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=Uh/wpEIUX9UX0FOdpsyW1Q==:117 a=Uh/wpEIUX9UX0FOdpsyW1Q==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=IMuZSgyABxCs_Xfmx1EA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Message-id: <565BCE96.4070406@eastlink.ca> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 20:20:38 -0800 From: Ray Andrews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.7.0 To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: lexing References: <565B18C6.6090707@eastlink.ca> <151129100735.ZM24525@torch.brasslantern.com> <565BB016.6020905@eastlink.ca> <20151130033348.GJ2504@tarsus.local2> In-reply-to: <20151130033348.GJ2504@tarsus.local2> On 11/29/2015 07:33 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > For the same reason as always — to document things for the next reader: Yup, that's questions and answers are for. > echo $( # Use a subshell because foo chokes if isatty(1) foo ) I don't > think Bart mentioned the subshell syntax: ( # this is a comment echo 42 ) As long as his general rule holds. The white space serves as a word separator, so really, following that more or less simple rule, it hasta be a comment, which pretty much kills my last mini-rant--it's a comment because the rule makes it a comment, and because there's no reason to take the trouble to prevent it from being a comment so it's a comment, strange as it might look.