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 (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id AAA08486 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:24:23 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA12861; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:56:47 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:56:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199606171356.PAA12683@hydra.ifh.de> To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: <> redirection operator (was: zsh.texi) In-reply-to: "hzoli@cs.elte.hu"'s message of "Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:10:29 MET." <199606171310.PAA01359@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:56:04 +0200 From: Peter Stephenson Resent-Message-ID: <"jZ4CC.0.t83.UGMnn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1359 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu hzoli@cs.elte.hu wrote: > I decided: in beta21, <> will always do redirection. This is a big enough change it should go on zsh-announce to see what the punters think. It was probably inevitable eventually, but it would be nice to have some way of easing the pain. For example, perhaps the DEBUG code for the next few betas could print some message like "warning: <> interpreted as redirection". That shouldn't be much bother since people are going to be slow to use it. Otherwise, debugging is going to be nasty. Just in case you wanted to know, I have had scripts with this in in the past. It's very convenient for managing sets of data files. That may have been in the days when I didn't automatically write everything in perl. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +49 33762 77366 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Fax: +49 33762 77330 Deutches Electronen-Synchrotron --- Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen DESY-IfH, 15735 Zeuthen, Germany.