From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: uninvited members of associative array
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:10:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb26fde2-2c5c-bfb1-9012-c69b550cd78d@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y5zBPG+WSTC/mG9n@localhost>
On 2022-12-16 11:04, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> I think you have a grave misconception of shells. Shells are
> basically command line interpreters with some text processing.
I know it. All the extra functionality accreted over the years. It's an
evolutionary cul-de-sac in that the latter additions are somewhat clumsy
in as much as they have to contend with the earlier design. Can't be
helped.
> There's no
> conception of symbolic values; all input is just text.
Except for those times when I wish it is was 'just text' but instead
things are expanded. Anyway how is a variable name not a symbol for the
contents of the variable?
> Shells are
> are not "programming languages".
That's a strange thing to hear. A program is a list of things on asks a
computer to accomplish and zsh accomplishes them. But you know more
about all this than I do.
> 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
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-16 20:11 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
2022-12-16 20:10 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=eb26fde2-2c5c-bfb1-9012-c69b550cd78d@eastlink.ca \
--to=rayandrews@eastlink.ca \
--cc=zsh-users@zsh.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.vuxu.org/mirror/zsh/
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).