From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14264 invoked from network); 9 Mar 1999 08:17:34 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Mar 1999 08:17:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 22894 invoked by alias); 9 Mar 1999 08:17:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5695 Received: (qmail 22881 invoked from network); 9 Mar 1999 08:17:00 -0000 From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "Peter Stephenson" , "Zsh hackers list" Subject: RE: PATCH: small parameter fix Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:16:18 +0300 Message-ID: <004701be6a05$1bf22f70$21c9ca95@mowp.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2013.2901 In-reply-to: <9903081555.AA18627@ibmth.df.unipi.it> I would suggest that in quotes the old behaviour > character-subscripting behaviour is the right one. > And consistent with manuals. By definition, "...${array}..." gives a scalar *unless* ``@'' is used /andrej