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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.


  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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