From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: repeat count?
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 09:49:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <98e30985-3f37-9158-0918-910f1382f915@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb0de352-3ce7-403c-8318-cb8ea1c83842@app.fastmail.com>
On 2023-01-19 08:37, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> - Or perhaps the arithmetic for() is good enough for now and we don't
> need this syntactic sugar at all.
>
Just a comment from the peanut gallery: I was thinking about that issue
and the question arose in my head whether or not something that is so
easy to do manually should be hard coded even in the best of all
possible worlds. Bigger code, new hardcoded variable, minute but still
possible bug of some sort, an extra microsecond to compile and run,
slightly bigger doc needed. Small issues, but small issues add up over
time, and since there is no *real* problem, why bother? Contrast ...
dunno ... say the '-U' option with arrays. When I first discovered that
I laughed like a loonie, it was so damned useful -- worth whatever
weight it added to the shell. Featuritis can add entropy rather than
reduce it. Little things can clutter more than they help.
My 2 cents.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-19 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-16 18:05 Dominik Vogt
2023-01-16 18:26 ` zeurkous
2023-01-16 18:49 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-01-16 19:17 ` Marc Chantreux
2023-01-19 14:50 ` zeurkous
2023-01-16 19:04 ` Stephane Chazelas
2023-01-16 19:05 ` Stephane Chazelas
2023-01-19 14:52 ` zeurkous
2023-01-16 19:20 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-01-19 14:57 ` zeurkous
2023-01-19 16:37 ` Daniel Shahaf
2023-01-19 17:49 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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