From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Misc. substitution things
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:02:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <071216130254.ZM2526@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
This seems like a bug:
zsh% print $(( x + "45" ))
dquote>
It appears that (( and the first double-quote are taken as a matching
pair of quotes. This is a recently-introduced bug, though I don't know
precisely when; 4.2.6 gives:
schaefer[501] print $(( x + "45" ))
zsh: bad math expression: operand expected at `"45" '
Less importantly, even after 24264 (of which I conceptually approve)
there is some ambiguity with the (P) flag and subscripting.
torch% a=A
torch% b=B
torch% c=C
torch% typeset -R5 x=abc
torch% print $x[3]
a
torch% print ${(P)x[3]}
C
Of course it has never really been "safe" to mix (P) and a subscript
without using a nested substitution to make your meaning clear (most
often one of ${${(@P)x}[3]} or ${(P)${x[3]}}, rarely ${${(P)x}[3]},
because quoting changes the results of that last one).
Post-24264, we're consistent with older zsh on ${(P)x[3]} but not
on ${(P)${x[3]}}. This might be OK because ${(P)${x[3]}} in the
above example is meaningless in older zsh (because there cannot be a
parameter named " c").
next reply other threads:[~2007-12-16 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-16 21:02 Bart Schaefer [this message]
2007-12-16 22:16 ` Peter Stephenson
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