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 AAA22219 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 00:52:37 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA01190; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:37:46 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:37:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199606211437.QAA03749@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: quoting bug, and comparisons with ksh93 To: stephens@math.ruu.nl (Bruce Stephens) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 16:37:13 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199606211424.QAA04218@bommel.math.ruu.nl> from Bruce Stephens at "Jun 21, 96 04:24:59 pm" Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"3Vs792.0.TI.vEhon"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1408 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > Moving to another topic, I was reading about ksh93 in the recent AT&T > book on reusable UNIX software. They've extended the pattern syntax > so it's equivalent to egrep style regexps (my guess is that zsh's are > pretty close), and added the nice touch that some option of print will > convert from a regexp to a ksh pattern. There are lots of handy > things for writing scripts, but I tend to use zsh only interactively, > so for all I know some of these may already exist, although some > definitely don't: I can't have a variable called a.fred, for example. ksh93 has many powerful features for scripts. I admit that for scripts sometime ksh93 may be better than zsh. But after the zsh-3.0 we can add the missing features. I have already made some experiments with dynamic loading. It is very easy to implement is on elf systems. What I do not know yet is the best interface to modules. Mudules will certainly appear after zsh-3.0 is out. Zoltan