From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: "Peter Slížik" <peter.slizik@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Removing an element from an array
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 10:31:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7ZYHBF9V2VJ4ftvbCk5DhPsKvT=iMN-SFd4GWM=JkATWg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC-uhUAPKg9LP-Tt-5bkQYR5n57m6L=EZzLhtKJ=q4hRB1qcYQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 4:23 AM Peter Slížik <peter.slizik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> By the way, can I ask why it is necessary to re-introduce the array context by another pair of parentheses, if the expression already produces an array value?
Assignment without the parens is a scalar context; the existing type
of the variable named on the left side is not considered during
parsing, and if the variable is not "special" the type may actually be
changed from array to scalar by the assignment operation.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-02 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-02 11:11 Peter Slížik
2020-11-02 11:25 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-11-02 12:23 ` Peter Slížik
2020-11-02 18:31 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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