* Re: Curiosity: zstyle -a vs. zstyle -h
@ 2000-05-17 9:52 Sven Wischnowsky
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sven Wischnowsky @ 2000-05-17 9:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
Bart Schaefer wrote:
> ...
>
> An equally good (perhaps even better) alternative would be to drop the -h
> option entirely and require the array to be declared if one wants it to be
> an assoc.
I'd be in favour of this, too (and was already tempted to write it,
especially since, as far as I can see, we don't use -h yet).
Bye
Sven
--
Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Curiosity: zstyle -a vs. zstyle -h
@ 2000-05-17 8:37 Bart Schaefer
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Bart Schaefer @ 2000-05-17 8:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
I just did a little experiment. It appears that `zstyle -h pat style name'
is exactly equivalent to `typeset -A name; zstyle -a pat style name'.
This seems just a tad inconsistent; if `zstyle -h' is going to force the
name to be an associative array, shouldn't `zstyle -a' force the name to
be an ordinary array? (And shouldn't it be -A rather than -h? I thought
we only used -h when -A was already taken, as with `stat' (and there it's
-H).)
An equally good (perhaps even better) alternative would be to drop the -h
option entirely and require the array to be declared if one wants it to be
an assoc.
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2000-05-17 9:52 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2000-05-17 9:52 Curiosity: zstyle -a vs. zstyle -h Sven Wischnowsky
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-05-17 8:37 Bart Schaefer
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.vuxu.org/mirror/zsh/
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).