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Thu, 31 Mar 2022 05:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (rhea.home.vuxu.org [local]) by rhea.home.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id e1c5a73e; Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:16:57 +0000 (UTC) From: Leah Neukirchen To: Peter Stephenson Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: _brace_parameter: misleading help text for # References: <87im12pj3i.fsf@vuxu.org> <4ede1b1e-f441-4b67-bc30-158c3397ca1d@www.fastmail.com> <1929934417.782788.1648716139543@mail2.virginmedia.com> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:16:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1929934417.782788.1648716139543@mail2.virginmedia.com> (Peter Stephenson's message of "Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:42:19 +0100 (BST)") Message-ID: <87bkxm9v0m.fsf@vuxu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Seq: 27640 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Peter Stephenson writes: > -Evaluate the resulting words as numeric expressions and output the > -characters corresponding to the resulting integer. Note that this form is > -entirely distinct from use of the tt(#) without parentheses. > +Evaluate the resulting words as numeric expressions and interpret > +these as character codes. Output the corresponding characters. Note > +that this form is entirely distinct from use of the tt(#) without > +parentheses. This is way more clear indeed. -- Leah Neukirchen https://leahneukirchen.org