From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1749 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2004 21:24:39 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 14 Mar 2004 21:24:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 11677 invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2004 21:24:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7176 Received: (qmail 11624 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2004 21:24:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Mar 2004 21:24:21 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [80.91.224.249] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 14 Mar 2004 21:24:21 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2d5p-0001vw-00 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:24:21 +0100 Received: from isi-dialin-129-124.isionline-dialin.de ([195.158.129.124]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:24:21 +0100 Received: from thorsten by isi-dialin-129-124.isionline-dialin.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:24:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: named directory expansion on strings Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:24:17 +0100 Message-ID: <97ksxgxix48t$.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> References: <1040313064100.ZM28748@candle.brasslantern.com> <1040314185437.ZM6792@candle.brasslantern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dialin-129-124.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.10.1de Sender: news * Bart Schaefer (2004-03-14 19:54 +0100) > On Mar 13, 6:48pm, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >: Fortunately, I found a better way[1]. Any style comments on my first >: /really complicated/ ;-) zsh shell script welcome! > > Nothing major ... > > [...] Thanks for the tips. >: Long live the Zen of Python[2]. > > Hrm. As far as I'm concerned, the Python folks went wrong when they gave > semantic significance to depth of whitespace indentation, and all of the > right decisions they've made since have been a waste of effort. Interesting. Everyone says that indentation is good and has a semantic significance for the programmer. And as soon as the compiler is made to honor this significance they say: "oh, no, give me back my braces, curls, parentheses and "END"s, "fi"s, "done"s, etc. Thorsten