From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Emulation and NUMERIC_GLOB_SORT
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:35:16 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199911111135.MAA28923@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Zefram's message of Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:01:46 +0000 (GMT)
Zefram wrote:
> Fundamentally, I view globbing as a programming feature, which should
> be utterly unaffected by locale. Same for string comparisons in [[]].
> I think we do want a locale-dependent string comparison operation, but
> its use is very much the exception, not the rule. Pattern matching and
> string comparisons are used on all sorts of strings, and only very rarely
> on natural-language text.
Sounds like a case for a matching flag, doesn't it? `(#L)' or
something to turn using locale-definitions on (and also in sorting if
the thing is globbed).
> ...
>
> [1] That reminds me, one of the things I never got round to implementing
> as a builtin was the POSIX "printf" utility. The advantage of having
> it as a builtin is that we could then use the same code for a "sprintf"
> builtin, which would put the result into a shell variable instead of
> sending it to standard output, which is a feature I often miss.
Oh yes.
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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1999-11-11 11:35 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
1999-11-11 11:42 ` Zefram
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1999-11-11 10:25 Bart Schaefer
1999-11-11 11:01 ` Zefram
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