From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4829 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2001 17:17:18 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 27 Jun 2001 17:17:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 10603 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2001 17:16:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 15145 Received: (qmail 10562 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2001 17:16:26 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1010627171410.ZM6302@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:14:09 +0000 In-Reply-To: <3B3A03E0.676FEDFC@u.genie.co.uk> Comments: In reply to Oliver Kiddle "Re: named references" (Jun 27, 5:03pm) References: <000201c0fd36$673064e0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> <3B3A03E0.676FEDFC@u.genie.co.uk> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Oliver Kiddle , zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: named references MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Jun 27, 5:03pm, Oliver Kiddle wrote: } } Does anyone else have an opinion on whether namerefs would be a useful } addition? I'd prefer this to be decided now rather than after I spend } more time on them. I think they'd be a very useful addition. Particularly if you can do: typeset -A hash hash[key]=value nameref 'thing=hash[key]' Which, of course, would be easily implemented given my scheme of storing a pointer to the referenced node in the nameref node. :-) You haven't answered any of my questions from 15059, though ... -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net