From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: "René Neumann" <lists@necoro.eu>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [Review Request] Arrays and their usage
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 21:24:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7bE9y+7inc0R-0g7T1k6sikpVFgBOAvNXq=i9Ld0+0QCw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3TNk-dPjz=iZwPxBCKpXFvHCxntfTetCdDmvsOehmS-wA@mail.gmail.com>
> On 5/31/21, René Neumann <lists@necoro.eu> wrote:
> >
> > Question: Is this the correct/zshonic way of doing this?
Using arrays, rather than repeatedly building strings that must be
split on spaces, is definitely the "zshonic" idiom.
> > I personally find the change of behavior by adding ( ) too easy to
> > overlook. Is there an alternative with ${(...)}?
I'm uncertain which change of behavior you mean?
On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 5:28 PM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would probably have written it like this
>
> local pkgs=( ${(f)"$(makepkg --blabla | sed blabla)"} )
> sudo pacman -S $DATABASE/$^pkgs
Of course it's possible to do this without the "pkgs" array:
sudo pacman -S $DATABASE/${^${(f)"$(makepkg --blabla | sed blabla)"}}
But you should do whichever you'll be able to understand when you come
back to it later.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-31 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-30 23:24 René Neumann
2021-05-31 0:28 ` Mikael Magnusson
2021-05-31 4:24 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2021-05-31 19:41 ` René Neumann
2021-05-31 17:36 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-05-31 20:04 ` René Neumann
2021-05-31 21:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-05-31 21:43 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-05-31 22:05 ` René Neumann
2021-06-01 5:59 ` Stephane Chazelas
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