From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11346 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2006 15:51:58 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 22 Jun 2006 15:51:58 -0000 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sunsite.dk does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: (qmail 95230 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2006 15:51:31 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 22 Jun 2006 15:51:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 21466 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2006 15:51:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 10416 Received: (qmail 21456 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2006 15:51:22 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 22 Jun 2006 15:51:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 93872 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2006 15:51:22 -0000 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (64.233.166.178) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 22 Jun 2006 15:51:20 -0000 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id e30so356676pya for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:51:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uIb2YYrXCbuV1vu5dfBRCg19MfCLtI4iiZ0QSiZ/5BG9mUJL0Gy2bbkGSGQyXxWmWHqpa6cxcr+9UX5Z3WbQNsRZ3HXTWnpC5g/ugdtf7Nf6AHxno7CqNkdpVyPBWaUIQRGz7f4xmhOG7x3NsKStKWEVU7ZynTJCAtCilsR/PGY= Received: by 10.35.21.1 with SMTP id y1mr1234917pyi; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:51:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.40.12 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:51:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:51:18 +0000 From: "Christopher Browne" To: "Andrew Ruder" Subject: Re: ZIRC - The 100% Zsh IRC client :) Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk In-Reply-To: <20060618204841.GA16337@goomba.ruder> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060618204841.GA16337@goomba.ruder> On 6/18/06, Andrew Ruder wrote: > As you can probably tell by the topic, I had some free time this weekend > and have created quite possibly the *stupidest* ZSH program ever. I am compelled to disagree. I already have had use for it to do something that would have been much less neat in tkirc. Consider... zirc_msg "Some relevant ./configure options:" for opt in config bin include includeserver lib pkglib; do zirc_msg "option --with-pg-${opt}dir=3D" done I thought that was way cool :-). --=20 http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/linux.html Oddly enough, this is completely standard behaviour for shells. This is a roundabout way of saying `don't use combined chains of `&&'s and `||'s unless you think G=F6del's theorem is for sissies'.