From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Ray Andrews" <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: can print but not assign to variable
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 20:36:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93794d01-8f2c-4f3f-8729-695d47c82682@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe5b670e-ddb1-5291-3470-fcba2b86c12b@eastlink.ca>
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, at 8:00 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
>> With EXTENDED_GLOB enabled, "#i" is treated as a glob, but this
>> fails because it is an invalid pattern.
>>
>> % setopt EXTENDED_GLOB
>> % var=(#i)$cmd
>> zsh: bad pattern: #i
>>
> I crashed into that. Sheesh, there's one case where EXTENDED_GLOB is
> limiting. Very confusing.
EXTENDED_GLOB has nothing to do with it. The problem is that
var=(#flags)pattern
is not parsed the way you think it should be, and it ends up being
a different command altogether, regardless of the state of
EXTENDED_GLOB. (Notice that my NO_EXTENDED_GLOB example *does not
work* -- it just quietly does something unintended.)
--
vq
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-27 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-26 21:11 Ray Andrews
2022-10-26 21:38 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-26 21:49 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-26 21:57 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-10-26 22:07 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-26 22:19 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-10-27 0:00 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-27 0:36 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
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