Re: Fwd: more splitting travails

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

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On 2024-01-12 21:51, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> I *am* glad.
> ... No, it's a meta tool that lets you understand your own
> code. You absolutely must remember it.

I quite understand!  To know the trade, the first thing is to know the 
tools.  Ironically my 'varis' is precisely a souped up: "printf 
debugging" tool and I will not endure that arrays with blanks will not 
show me the bleeding blanks. If I want the blanks unshown I will *ask* 
for them to be unshown. If I copy an array I want an exact duplicate 
*unless* I specify otherwise. If I'm typing a letter don't correct my 
spelling automatically, I'll *ask* for spellcheck if I want it. 
Sometimes you make a speling mestake on purpose. [/micro-rant]

As a self-taught zsheller working by myself I haven't the advantage of 
the 'up close and personal' chance to absorb culture and craft from 
experts like yourself. It's a bit like trying to learn Finnish over the 
internet talking to people who only speak Finnish when I myself don't 
yet know one word of it. But slowly, slowly things come clear. You guys 
are wonderfully patient. A single sentence can work wonders. Things you 
know so deeply you don't think they need to be mentioned. Eg. Bart 
saying that if it's not in quotes, or an expansion, then it's active. 
And if it is an expansion then '(P)' makes it active again. It blows 
away the fog. (And naturally there will be 17.02 exceptions -- 18.1 on 
Tuesday -- but it's a head start.)

BTW, speaking of tools, wouldn't it be nice to be able to step thru the 
code, one line at a time?  Could do that with C back in the day.

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