From: Kannan Varadhan <kvaradhan3@gmail.com>
To: Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Should zipping two empty arrays result in empty string?
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 21:18:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f360e541-0993-db23-902b-174b08b2cad4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98007a1c-8cd4-f6bf-36c4-65f046e8bc17@gmx.com>
Isn't this identical to
% for i in "" ; do typeset -p i ; done
which yields exactly one iteration, as I would expect?
Kannan
On 12/31/16 7:49 PM, Eric Cook wrote:
> The following code results in a single loop
>
> a=() b=(); for n in "${(@)a:^b}"; do typeset -p n; done
> typeset n=''
>
> My question is, would anyone expect that? or would the you expect
> nothing to expand, resulting in the loop not iterating?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-01 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-01 3:49 Eric Cook
2017-01-01 5:18 ` Kannan Varadhan [this message]
2017-01-01 8:50 ` Eric Cook
2017-01-01 9:17 ` Eric Cook
2017-01-01 20:24 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-01-01 20:27 ` [PATCH] zipping two empty arrays should not result in empty string Bart Schaefer
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