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From: Marc Chantreux <eiro@phear.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zzapper <zsh@rayninfo.co.uk>, Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: (prefix case terminators?) Re: alias with a parameter
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 08:46:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHky3+HIR0eRsLvj@prometheus.u-strasbg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7bFEnvAYAkP6=rUdUoZzcySBHN7iinPWc9OJ7seOsciHw@mail.gmail.com>

hello,

> > i would have written ${1-} so -u can be used.
> I'm not following that at all:  -u where?

oopps. sorry i was too fast writting this. i meant nounset option.
i want my shell to yell at me as soon as i do something wrong so
my ~/.zshenv starts with

    setopt warncreateglobal nounset pipefail

> > also: i really think that using terminators as "continuation"
> > ease the code reading
> Entirely my opinion, but I find your example much MORE difficult to read.

Thanks for the feedback! As always, i think everyone comes with cultural
biases when it comes to coding style.  when i read

    case "$var" in
        (a*) write ;;
        (b*) something ;;
        (c*) cool ;;
    esac

i would like to see/write

    # in raku
    given $var {
        when /a*/ { write }
        when /b*/ { something }
        when /c*/ { cool }
    }

    # in rc

    switch ($var) {
        case a* ; write
        case b* ; something
        case c* ; cool
    }

and i used to actually read/write

    # zsh

    case "$var" {
        (a*) write
        ;;
        (b*) something
        ;;
        (c*) cool
        ;;
    }

because i though for many years that alternative syntax will replace the
old one the way zshcompsys replaced zshcompctl. but:

* it will never happen and i have to fall back with the classic syntax
  whenever i contribute to existing codebases.
* i started replace zsh by dash or rc in my scripts whenever the
  awesomeness of zsh doesn't help a lot (which means "lot of them")

so now i try to stick to POSIX syntax whenever it's easy to do it but i
try to adapt the coding style so the code keep staying attractive to me.

> > * it's easier to spot a different terminator than ;;
> For that, I'd put the terminator on a line by itself, which I would
> also do if the case branch was more than one line or if the case
> pattern was quite long, but with short patterns and the terminators
> all ;; it seems unnecessary.

indeed. what i just did is to remove a "useless new line".

        ...
        some code
        there
    ;;
    (newcase)

and
        ...
        some code
        there
    ;; (newcase)

both to me and the interpreter and the second one looks much more
natural to me. i'm not trying to convince anyone. i was really please to
read your feedback so i try to share my opinion on it.

regards
marc


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-16  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-05 22:55 dukeofpurl
2021-04-06  0:16 ` lb
2021-04-06  3:40   ` Duke Normandin
2021-04-06 14:42     ` Greg Klanderman
2021-04-06  2:47 ` Grant Taylor
2021-04-07  7:05   ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-04-07 12:48     ` lb
2021-04-07 12:58       ` Peter Stephenson
2021-04-08  1:06       ` Grant Taylor
2021-04-08  1:25         ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-09  2:55           ` Grant Taylor
2021-04-09 22:49             ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-10  7:32               ` david rayner
2021-04-10 10:38                 ` Marc Chantreux
2021-04-14 11:10                   ` zzapper
2021-04-15 18:19                     ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-15 19:56                       ` (prefix case terminators?) " Marc Chantreux
2021-04-15 23:52                         ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-16  6:46                           ` Marc Chantreux [this message]
2021-04-15 20:30                       ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-16  7:34                         ` zapper
2021-04-16 10:12                         ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-04-10 16:30               ` Grant Taylor
2021-04-10 16:34                 ` Grant Taylor
2021-04-13 11:22                 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-07 14:43     ` Daniel Shahaf

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