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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: why is eval needed?
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 18:13:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8064d703-71e4-f4d2-8bea-15ad4ee7fa05@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7b3CGzNSov6uyCXeNTFv84kEcRGmSfSwZA5=eKn+2wDBg@mail.gmail.com>


> In the Unix-based world, it's expected that the shell will do the
> parsing and the command only has to do the interpreting, so there are
> a lot more rules about the structure of the command line.

Hit the nail on the head :-)




  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-21  2:16 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
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 [this message]
2022-11-20 22:47                   ` Ray Andrews

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