From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>,
zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: expansion
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:13:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1000615091332.ZM4783@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200006150826.KAA05864@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
On Jun 15, 10:26am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: expansion
}
} I didn't change that even now because I've regretted these
} `mathematically conditional' styles for quite some time now.
Yes, I find it extremely difficult to express any useful conditions
that way. I usually want some prefix of the line to match, or some
such, and end up using ${#${some_complicated_parameter_substitution}}
to get a numeric result.
} They should be turned into boolean styles and the condition should come
} from somewhere else, e.g. the -e option to zstyle I suggested (see
} 11691).
I agree.
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-15 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-15 8:26 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-06-15 9:13 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2000-06-15 9:22 ` Peter Stephenson
2000-06-15 14:54 ` Oliver Kiddle
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-06-16 11:22 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-06-16 12:20 ` Peter Stephenson
2000-06-16 7:30 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-06-15 15:15 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-06-15 15:32 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-06-15 9:40 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-06-15 9:09 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-06-14 16:07 Oliver Kiddle
2000-06-14 18:34 ` Peter Stephenson
2000-06-08 8:37 Sven Wischnowsky
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