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From: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>
To: <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Crash bug in typeset -T
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:49:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110228094931.7deaa547@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <110227223740.ZM5361@torch.brasslantern.com>

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:37:40 -0800
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> Obviously "typeset -T" needs to check if it's being applied to a
> parameter that's already tied ... but what should it do in that
> case?  Error?

Within looking in any detail, I think it's going to have to be an error.
The reason you need to unset variables to retie them is that undoing it
is a lot of tricky code all over the place creating messy special cases.
The real fix is the same real fix as to most typeset problems: the code
should delegate much more to functions for different types of variables
reached via a uniform interface.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>            Software Engineer
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-28 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-28  6:37 Bart Schaefer
2011-02-28  9:49 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2011-03-01  4:00   ` Bart Schaefer

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