From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26576 invoked from network); 26 Aug 1999 09:42:28 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 26 Aug 1999 09:42:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 29726 invoked by alias); 26 Aug 1999 09:42:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7493 Received: (qmail 29719 invoked from network); 26 Aug 1999 09:42:22 -0000 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:42:20 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199908260942.LAA14798@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:07:09 +0400 Subject: RE: PATCH: Re: Files modified after a given date Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > First of all it allows the `*(F:func:)' Zefram mentioned. The function > > will get the filename as its first argument and the return value says > > if the name should be included (ir it is zero, of course). > > > > Well, I've read it too late :-) > > I was about to suggest more general eval'ing of expression (with some meta to > insert file name in the proper place). I believe, these expressions may oft be > short enough to warrant the whole function ... > > Comments? Hmm, yes that may be an interesting alternative. Wouldn't be hard to implement either and we wouldn't really need any meta character- sequence, we could just set `$FILE' or something like that before evaluating the whole thing. If enough people say that they prefer this, I'll build a patch. Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de