From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: anonymous functions (no documentation yet)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:42:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806261542.m5QFgIoE019702@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080626153203.GA10599@sc.homeunix.net>
Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 04:06:36PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > > Out of interest, how does it affect:
> > > ""() { ... }
> >
> > That also turns into an empty argument list that is ignored. I would
> > have to check why since my first guess was it would produce an invalid
> > empty function name.
>
> Well,
>
> ""() echo test
> ''
>
> Does echo "test".
You're right; I didn't try it out. I'd forgotten functions (unlike
variables) could be called absolutely any string of characters.
--
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:[~2008-06-26 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-26 13:51 Peter Stephenson
2008-06-26 14:48 ` Oliver Kiddle
2008-06-26 15:06 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-06-26 15:32 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-06-26 15:42 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2008-06-26 17:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-06-26 17:28 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-06-30 10:27 ` PATCH: anonymous functions, full patch Peter Stephenson
2008-06-30 13:57 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-06-30 15:04 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-07-01 17:43 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-07-01 18:32 ` Peter Stephenson
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