From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@tiny.zanshin.com>
To: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: small parameter fix
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 01:01:01 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14051.37325.463850.598816@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199903080850.JAA11456@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Sven Wischnowsky writes:
>
> ...although I'm not sure if it was not intentional. If it was, I'd
> like to hear the reason. This:
>
> ${${...}[...]}
>
> previously didn't really work: if the inner ${...} produced an array
> with only one element, the outer ${...} treated it as a string and the
> subscript gave the n'th character.
AHA! This must be the reason that "${${(@)...}...}" is required in so
many mystifying circumstances. I, too, would like to hear whether the
previous behavior was intentional ... this change does potentially
break scripts, including I think 3.0.5 scripts, so we'd better tread
carefully.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-03-08 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-08 8:50 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-03-08 9:01 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1999-03-08 15:55 ` Peter Stephenson
1999-03-09 8:16 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1999-03-09 8:19 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-03-09 10:12 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-03-09 10:30 Sven Wischnowsky
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=14051.37325.463850.598816@localhost.localdomain \
--to=schaefer@tiny.zanshin.com \
--cc=schaefer@zanshin.com \
--cc=wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de \
--cc=zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.vuxu.org/mirror/zsh/
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).