From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Bug/regression: tt(RANDOM) seed not updating when $RANDOM is used in a pipe
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:41:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b707f964-1ccf-9b41-7eee-e27c4b765beb@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7YEgHWBroyBYOg5t7QcLpxsCmUU2f_04XPt2+sy+ayj2g@mail.gmail.com>
On 2023-06-28 22:42, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> The LHS of the pipe should be a subshell, so the behavior is intentional.
> This was, however, an unanticipated side-effect of the referenced
> commit.
So it feels like a bug but is theoretically correct even tho it was
'fixed' by accident? I'd speculate that nine out of ten people would
prefer the 'bug' since it's the intuitive behavior. If one wanted to
preserve a value, would one not do that explicitly? Just my two cents.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-29 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-28 20:10 Jon Oster
2023-06-29 2:46 ` Eric Cook
2023-06-29 5:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-06-29 14:41 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2023-06-29 14:56 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-06-29 17:53 ` Mikael Magnusson
2023-06-29 18:15 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-06-29 23:41 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-07-02 7:17 ` Mikael Magnusson
2023-07-02 7:29 ` Roman Perepelitsa
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