From: Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: x=(foo ; bar) array assignments with embedded semicolons
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 00:47:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <564D6260.6080907@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <151118074743.ZM28021@torch.brasslantern.com>
On 11/18/2015 10:47 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Nov 18, 10:20am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> }
> } I don't think it's facetious at all. Unquoted ";" is a separator,
> } whether in an array or not.
>
> Nevertheless it is a syntax error in e.g. bash to use ";" there.
>
And that is what i assumed zsh would do. Since the only syntactical mention of ;
in the man pages i saw was as a list terminator; leaving the incomplete array definition.
Since it is intentional, could it be added to the man pages?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-19 6:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-17 22:16 Daniel Shahaf
2015-11-17 23:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-11-18 10:20 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-11-18 15:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-11-19 5:47 ` Eric Cook [this message]
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