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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: Implementation of simple newuser module (how to start?)
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:36:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200507250936.j6P9aVAR005452@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1050723051057.ZM10317@candle.brasslantern.com>

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> } +autoload -U zsh-install-newuser
> } +zsh-install-newuser
> 
> I suggest that instead this be:
> 
>  autoload -U +X zsh-install-newuser && zsh-install-newuser
> 
> That is, don't execute the function if it can't be autoloaded, and don't
> redefine it if it is already defined.

But autoload +X returns false if the function was already defined, so it
wouldn't execute the function in that case.

I have belatedly realised that zsh-newuser-install would probably be a
better name, since if the function gets split up into smaller functions
it gives a namespace.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-25  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-17 20:16 Keir Mierle
2005-07-18 10:13 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-07-20 14:01 ` PATCH: " Peter Stephenson
2005-07-20 18:04   ` Peter Stephenson
2005-07-23  5:10     ` Bart Schaefer
2005-07-25  9:36       ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2005-07-26 10:21         ` Peter Stephenson
2005-07-26 14:12           ` Bart Schaefer
2005-07-26 15:08             ` Peter Stephenson

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