From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3266 invoked by alias); 30 Apr 2018 05:28:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: X-Seq: 23376 Received: (qmail 13280 invoked by uid 1010); 30 Apr 2018 05:28:31 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mail-lf0-f50.google.com by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(209.85.215.50):SA:0(-1.9/5.0):. Processed in 3.406208 secs); 30 Apr 2018 05:28:31 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_PASS,T_DKIMWL_WL_MED,T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: schaefer@brasslantern.com X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=brasslantern-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=FbrZTKMbV7idlUUMXtKZIU1bKu26uWXOKr3us1l1fdE=; b=Aqyg2J010AJuddDoyH4CSnWO/DnsqUgxbgUilHtrCIPYj/SLLuueqghRHnV+8kTmHM rHnQptqbSEtqv9h6SuZ0OMHbLTUKso0O4kGuV2uf//fUakLRuCkXw2Wqc8OcGNmaAh3x 41H6i7NL96+45KYaXx7J60KY3kW8xVcL2ZpJklx8z+7qMurpi/mH5dU1KzLx0JlB4afR cdVqTwZn1KpxInAcWYcuWGG0rQ9dK57ZkgefIUJ6nB9SYBDWme6Ph8hGbjshdm3S2o8E a4zFRQVqFNXl4GJJB5Xp/pAuSzc1F9/8joXUGfvgzB2gdXW71El7euBEuFkdSErAfLGU SYSg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=FbrZTKMbV7idlUUMXtKZIU1bKu26uWXOKr3us1l1fdE=; b=oU598jVBM8iqtUlJrSwnqCM5HxWfdgcjJGIDLlFTZyvcOKkZCXvtHjvO5fc4vlwm/x AWpXkKIMXVEb2sXKEWVxCMGoU8+n6OJ9rUqsRrTHkjc/9O32iW8CO5adl9eOKwUSoxZl 2WK6p5Wyjr7FBANR1tyV0LGgx7skiCxi1GxslK/S4t71snfytioGIKfaFe9mArTL49jw TqYk+7Mh/7cPDkLYAoiGS3l3ZvPI3QMhfgH7QbP6MZWSbXuDGde1OXOUEaN3//INUdqg JyuIfMJB8AvsvQXSOl+Uhby5UD+cpTX1A8JT3xYiAyhVpkImIYZz6g5sGkyLlspwRuqy te0w== X-Gm-Message-State: ALQs6tC9u0I7dkBzai44jTUhkERTnqZuPuenBRLVb2BtGqcQNp2SrYHK ccFQrjByGP+/NljuTbrPDYuldcdk8sLm0Fp2DnjchO5u X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZpgyJjFc2s0dUEgAEpqZJj3eKStfBAdhHsJZxA+afI4qrOi4Alf4ImkQjWE0M4py6PfmUO2kyWvDTcbZHiBBVg= X-Received: by 2002:a2e:5855:: with SMTP id x21-v6mr7425343ljd.84.1525066102916; Sun, 29 Apr 2018 22:28:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180423110642.0e0a5ebe@camnpupstephen.cam.scsc.local> References: <20180422204849.GA30387@prometheus.u-strasbg.fr> <20180423110642.0e0a5ebe@camnpupstephen.cam.scsc.local> From: Bart Schaefer Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 22:28:22 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: zsh at perl conference and few questions To: Zsh Users Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 3:06 AM, Peter Stephenson wrote: > > Simple minded namespaces --- allow dots in the variable works > --- are trivial, It's actually not that trivial because the same code for parsing an "identifier" is used in a lot of places. It's not possible to just add "." to the set of identifier characters, because we don't want $this.that to parse as ${this.that}, among other things. Nevertheless this part -- > but the variable code is very complicated and working > out how to do it properly is a big task that no one has been prepared to > look at -- is definitely the bigger part of the picture. For one thing, it would be ideal if true namerefs were working before namespaces were.