Thanks, this makes sense.

On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 22:05, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 6:53 AM Sebastian Gniazdowski
> <sgniazdowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > [[ "zparseopts -F" == (#b)*(zparseopts)*~^*(-F)* ]]
>
> I'm not 100% sure, but I think the problem here is that the negation
> with ^ is processed in a secondary invocation of the pattern matcher
> so the $match from parens there is overwritten by the results of the
> previous pattern.
>
> This behaves differently (but perhaps not quite what you're after):
>
> [[ "zparseopts -F" == (#b)*(zparseopts)(*~^*(-F)*) ]]
>


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Sebastian Gniazdowski