From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Zsh workers <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: PATCH: subscript flags on lhs of assignment
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:58:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23659.1081256330@trentino.logica.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1040331155841.ZM29270@candle.brasslantern.com>
On 31 Mar, Bart wrote:
> Nice. You'll need to update the docs, of course; the INability to use
> a pair of patterns for associative arrays should have been explicitly
> mentioned before, and the stuff about assignments not working will have
> to move from the "r" section to the "R" section.
Okay, here's the doc change.
Oliver
Index: Doc/Zsh/params.yo
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RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Doc/Zsh/params.yo,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -r1.20 params.yo
--- Doc/Zsh/params.yo 8 Mar 2004 16:57:41 -0000 1.20
+++ Doc/Zsh/params.yo 6 Apr 2004 12:41:33 -0000
@@ -198,14 +198,14 @@
scalar and the `tt(w)' flag is given, respectively). The subscript used
is the number of the matching element, so that pairs of subscripts such as
`tt($foo[(r))var(??)tt(,3])' and `tt($foo[(r))var(??)tt(,(r)f*])' are
-possible. If the parameter is an associative array, only the value part
-of each pair is compared to the pattern, and the result is that value.
-Reverse subscripts may be used for assigning to ordinary array elements,
-but not for assigning to associative arrays.
+possible if the parameter is not an associative array. If the
+parameter is an associative array, only the value part of each pair is
+compared to the pattern, and the result is that value.
)
item(tt(R))(
Like `tt(r)', but gives the last match. For associative arrays, gives
-all possible matches.
+all possible matches. May be used for assigning to ordinary array
+elements, but not for assigning to associative arrays.
)
item(tt(i))(
Like `tt(r)', but gives the index of the match instead; this may not be
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-06 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-31 13:20 Oliver Kiddle
2004-03-31 15:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-04-06 12:58 ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
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