From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>, 526924@bugs.debian.org
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Bug#526924: zparseopts: should use lists as values in assoc array
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 16:05:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090505160528.GB19068@scru.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090504130124.GA13947@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 03:01:24PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> piper:~|master|% set -- -a1 -a2; zparseopts -A arr a+:; echo $arr[-a]
> 12
>
> Unfortunately, this greatly reduces the usefulness of the builtin,
> since it's impossible to tell from the hash value whether the
> options where -a1 -a2 or -a12.
>
> It would be better if the value pointed to by the hash would contain
> a list, such that $arr[-a] in the above would be (1 2).
Unfortunately we don't handle arrays as values of associate arrays
(yet?) but you can do something like
set -- -a1 -a2; zparseopts 'a+:=arr'; print -l $arr
although this seems to set arr=(1 -a 2), which is not what I
expected to happen.
next parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-05 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090504130124.GA13947@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
2009-05-05 16:05 ` Clint Adams [this message]
2009-05-05 16:36 ` martin f krafft
2009-05-05 17:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2009-05-05 17:28 ` martin f krafft
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