From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA25896 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 06:13:12 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA00812; Mon, 27 May 1996 16:06:02 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 16:06:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Anthony Heading Message-Id: <199605272004.VAA17880@gmp-etpres1.uk.jpmorgan.com> Subject: Re: mailcheck patch To: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 21:04:19 +0100 (BST) Cc: heading_anthony@jpmorgan.com, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199605271706.TAA00782@hzoli.ppp.cs.elte.hu> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at May 27, 96 07:06:17 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"1KBds.0.XC.fiWgn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1194 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Zoltan wrote: > I do not incorporate it now. Instead here is an other patch. After that, > the message part of mailpath will undergo parameter expansion, command > substitution and arithmetic substitution. This is exactly what ksh does. > This can provide equivalent functionality to the requested feature. Fine by me. Just to check, though, is it clear that $_ will never clash with its normal "special parameter" meaning? Anthony