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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@gmail.com>, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable further expansion of parameter name by ${!...}
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:14:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150125181433.4ef7fcc8@ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1422177338-85472-1-git-send-email-tomoki.sekiyama@gmail.com>

On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 04:15:38 -0500
Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@gmail.com> wrote:
> With this change, ${!...} will enable further expansion of parameter name,
> which is equivalent to (P) expansion flag. This will enable zsh to run some
> scripts using variable references for bash.

Thanks, this is a useeful idea, however it looks like a bit more work
will be necessary to avoid this being confused with the parameter called
"!", i.e. the last programme run in the background.  Both $! and ${!}
have that meaning.

pws


  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-25 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-25  9:15 Tomoki Sekiyama
2015-01-25 18:14 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2015-01-25 18:23   ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-01-25 20:24 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-25 20:38   ` ZyX
2015-01-25 21:39     ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-26 20:00       ` Tomoki Sekiyama
2015-01-26 20:44         ` ZyX
2015-01-27  5:48         ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-28  3:21           ` Tomoki Sekiyama
2015-01-28 18:41             ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-11 16:58           ` Bart Schaefer

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