From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: associative array questions
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 13:41:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7aQgCJcSOL2_VwAm1RUGibMATkNQuka8wq0Faf4iPB2JA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2a32c64-2d15-3994-96cb-27c3e729ae1e@eastlink.ca>
On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 12:52 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> Before? Nuts I thought the substitutions always happened first.
Parsing has to happen first, otherwise it's not possible to find what
to substitute ...
> > You could also do (another thing that doesn't work in older zsh)
> > eval "${aarray}+=([second]='tea for two')"
> Of course I'm trying to avoid the eval entirely. You've always advised
> against it.
You can do
typeset -g -- "${aarray}[second]"='tea for two'
to avoid eval. Unfortunately typeset doesn't allow the += syntax.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-11 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-11 17:39 Ray Andrews
2022-12-11 19:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-11 20:51 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-11 21:41 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2022-12-11 22:37 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-12 1:52 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-12 3:09 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 3:31 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 4:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-13 16:11 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 16:22 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-13 20:00 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 20:06 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-13 22:47 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 23:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-14 1:08 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13 21:18 ` Bart Schaefer
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