From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: delay argument interpretation
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:10:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <970722091033.ZM14730@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199707220823.JAA20676@taos.demon.co.uk>
On Jul 22, 9:23am, Andrew Main wrote:
> Subject: Re: delay argument interpretation
>
> Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > show () {
> > show=()
> > show=($~*)
> > print -rc $show
> > }
> > alias show='noglob show'
>
> Why? What's wrong with
>
> function show {
> show=("$@")
> print -rc -- "$@"
> }
The latter fails to set $show to empty when the pattern doesn't match
anything. I have nomatch set, so if there's a globbing failure in the
arg list, "show" never executes. I want to force "show" to start, and
*then* get the globbing failure.
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-07-22 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-07-21 16:05 Paul Lew
1997-07-21 16:43 ` Andrew Main
1997-07-21 18:52 ` Bart Schaefer
1997-07-22 8:23 ` Andrew Main
1997-07-22 16:10 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1997-07-22 17:25 ` Zoltan T. Hidvegi
1997-07-22 17:28 Zoltan T. Hidvegi
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