From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: [Bug] make, zsh and functions
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:03:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803061304.m26D3uhK032732@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47CFE8E3.6090005@lshift.net>
Adrien Pierard wrote:
> Hi.
>
> This is a bug that is easy to reproduce:
> ------------snip---------
> % cat > Makefile
> all:
> @echo hello
> ^D
> % make
> hello
> % make foo().
> % make
> make:.:3: not enough arguments
This isn't a bug; see the syntax for function definitions in the zshmisc
manual. "make foo()." defines two functions called make and foo with the
body ".". This feature isn't often used; it seems to be there to make
it easy to define identical trap functions.
--
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-06 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-06 12:51 Adrien Pierard
2008-03-06 13:03 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2008-03-06 13:09 ` Adrien Pierard
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