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From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: uninvited members of associative array
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 20:04:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5zBPG+WSTC/mG9n@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81952d4b-3ead-f912-f987-fe9a37dbd256@eastlink.ca>

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 10:21:28AM -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:
> Yeah.  I'm sure many of my own travails have been due to that kind of ...
> well, one could say 'shortcutting', but more often it's simply not
> understanding the vulnerability of unquoted vars. As a few weeks ago, when
> what was it ... something unquoted with '[]' in it tried to expand to a list
> of files.  It's far to late to do anything about it design wise, but if it
> were up to me the shells would have evolved from their warm little ponds
> with a 'positive option' mentality vs. the 'negative option' that we
> currently have.  Basically: If I want something I'll ask for it. If I want a
> var to expand to filenames I'll request that.  If I want empty elements
> removed from an array I'll say so.   As it is zsh loves to do helpful things
> whether you want them or not  and you have to ask for the exemption.  Mostly
> by quoting but the world would have been simpler if it had been the other
> way. Dunno, maybe not.  When one is dealing on the command line, probably
> file-centrism makes sense.  But when it's variable contents the opposite is
> true.  Anyway the thing is to learn the lesson early: quote.

I think you have a grave misconception of shells.  Shells are
basically command line interpreters with some text processing.  A
command line is a string with shell specific instructions to
generate a final list of constant strings.  These are then
interpreted as a command name and its arguments.  There's no
conception of symbolic values; all input is just text.  Shells are
are not "programming languages".  The shell does not know about
file names on the command line, it just expands strings to
filenames if they contain globbing patterns.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

--

Dominik Vogt


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-16 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-15 23:48 Ray Andrews
2022-12-16  0:05 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-16  0:48   ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16  1:29     ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-16  2:09     ` Dominik Vogt
2022-12-16  2:56       ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16  3:21         ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-16  4:16           ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 10:05             ` Dominik Vogt
2022-12-16 14:13               ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 15:19                 ` Dominik Vogt
2022-12-16 19:14                   ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 16:30                 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-16 18:21                   ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 19:04                     ` Dominik Vogt [this message]
2022-12-16 20:10                       ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 21:15                         ` Dominik Vogt
2022-12-16 21:33                           ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-16 21:59                             ` Dominik Vogt
2022-12-16 22:15                               ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-16 23:33                                 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-17 12:47                                   ` Pier Paolo Grassi
2022-12-17 17:32                                     ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-17 18:10                                 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-17 18:19                                   ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-17 20:31                                     ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-17 20:49                                       ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-17 21:07                                       ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-17 21:52                                         ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-17 22:10                                           ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-17 23:41                                             ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-18  0:15                                             ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-18  0:25                                               ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-18  2:13                                                 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-18 20:12                                                   ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-18 20:26                                                     ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-18 20:41                                                       ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-18  3:44                                               ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-17 23:25                                         ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-16 21:33                           ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 20:25                       ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-16 21:43                         ` Dominik Vogt
2022-12-16  3:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-16  4:15   ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16  8:12 ` Roman Perepelitsa

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