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From: Oliver Kiddle <opk@u.genie.co.uk>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Nasty bug in array-element typeset assignments
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:04:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B5FEB29.884D31BF@u.genie.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Tc0a88d0154fb44a8a5@mailsweeper01.cambridgesiliconradio.com>

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> 
> Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > > "Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> > > >         local 'foo[1]'=X
> > >
> > > Is this supposed to be supported?  I certainly haven't done anything about
> > > it.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, recent changes has enabled it.

Really? So what would it do? Make the whole foo array local or just the
first element? Clearly neither works.

> Yuk.  Whoever decided on this has got a job on their hands.

> Typeset is going to get *very* confused.  Each change like this multiplies,

I'd say that it already is very confused. I haven't had time for a
couple of weeks now but last time I looked at the nameref stuff, that
code was doing my head in. However, I wouldnt have thought it'd be too
hard to get it to print an error message for the above case.

Oliver


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-26 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-26  5:13 Bart Schaefer
2001-07-26  9:23 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-07-26  9:28   ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-07-26  9:44     ` Peter Stephenson
2001-07-26  9:57       ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-07-26 10:04       ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2001-07-26 11:07         ` Oliver Kiddle
2001-07-26 11:08         ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-07-26 11:18           ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-07-26 11:38           ` Oliver Kiddle
2001-07-26 11:45             ` Peter Stephenson
2001-07-26 12:21               ` PATCH: posixbuiltins test (was Re: Nasty bug in array-element typeset assignments) Oliver Kiddle
2001-07-26 13:24             ` Nasty bug in array-element typeset assignments Borsenkow Andrej
2001-07-26 17:49               ` Bart Schaefer
2001-08-12 18:55                 ` PATCH (?): " Bart Schaefer

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