From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA27572 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 08:15:22 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA02484; Mon, 27 May 1996 18:09:22 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 18:09:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <24401.199605272145@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: mailcheck patch To: aheading@jpmorgan.com (Anthony Heading) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 22:45:04 +0100 (BST) Cc: hzoli@cs.elte.hu, heading_anthony@jpmorgan.com, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199605272004.VAA17880@gmp-etpres1.uk.jpmorgan.com> from "Anthony Heading" at May 27, 96 09:04:19 pm X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]7569.53 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"L2Pt81.0.hc.HWYgn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1198 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >Fine by me. Just to check, though, is it clear that $_ will never clash with >its normal "special parameter" meaning? The patch achieves the mail file meaning of $_ by temporarily replacing the value of the parameter $_ with the name of the mail file. You can't get at the previous value. -zefram