From: Michael Hwang <michael.a.hwang@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Revamped (P) expansion flag
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:52:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22a0ef081001051452g4066b985nef6ac1e9a60e4de9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100105172012.3f1d628c@news01>
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> With the two patches I know about (the second a single line), the test
> suite now fails at this test in D06subscript.ztst:
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Michael Hwang
<michael.a.hwang@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the more buggy-ish side:
>
> % STRING='zsh is awesome!'
> % STR='zsh sucks... :-/'
> % REF=STRING
> % print ${(P)REF[1,3]}
> zsh sucks... :-/
>
> As ${(P)REF} is really ${(P)${REF}}, one would think that that
> ${(P)REF[1,3]} would be expanded as ${(P)${REF}[1,3]}. But as you can
> see, it is instead expanded as ${(P)${REF[1,3]}}.
I believe that the behavior that test relies on should be considered a
bug. What do you think?
Michael Hwang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-05 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-26 22:48 Michael Hwang
2009-12-27 0:59 ` Michael Hwang
2009-12-28 0:57 ` Michael Hwang
2010-01-05 17:20 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-01-05 22:52 ` Michael Hwang [this message]
2010-01-06 9:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-01-06 15:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2010-01-01 16:35 Michael Hwang
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