From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: PATCH: Icky little array slice assignment bug
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:34:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1010518173439.ZM14970@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
This appears to date back about a year, roughly to Wayne's change to use
zero-based indexing internally on array subscripts (zsh-workers/11677).
zagzig% a=(x y z)
zagzig% echo $a[(i)q]
4
zagzig% echo $a[(I)q]
0
zagzig% a[(I)q]=W
zagzig% echo $a
x y W x y z
The following patch fixes it, though I'm not sure it's the best way.
There remains this bug of extremely long standing:
zagzig% a[(r)q]=V
zagzig% echo $a
x y W x y z V <-- this is ok
zagzig% a[(R)q]=U
zagzig% echo $a
U y W x y z V <-- this is probably unexpected
That is, there's a phantom element at the right end of an array but not at
the left, so you can "push" but not "unshift" elements -- an attempt to
insert at the beginning of the array clobbers the first element. We could
special-case an assignment to index zero when ksharrays is not in effect,
but it might be a bit messy.
Index: Src/params.c
===================================================================
--- Src/params.c 2001/05/02 16:59:02 1.6
+++ Src/params.c 2001/05/18 17:13:17
@@ -1721,7 +1721,7 @@
v->pm->nam, 0);
return;
}
- if (v->inv && unset(KSHARRAYS))
+ if (v->inv && unset(KSHARRAYS) && v->start > 0)
v->start--, v->end--;
q = old = v->pm->gets.afn(v->pm);
n = arrlen(old);
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
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next reply other threads:[~2001-05-18 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-18 17:34 Bart Schaefer [this message]
2001-05-18 18:16 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-05-19 12:13 ` Wayne Davison
2001-05-20 9:25 ` Wayne Davison
2001-05-20 21:31 ` Bart Schaefer
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