From: "Rocky Bernstein" <rocky.bernstein@gmail.com>
To: "Zsh hackers list" <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Weird error message when using bash or ksh form of array initialization
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:02:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6cd6de210808241802w6c6e91a9u67ada279a3f4dd82@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <237967ef0808241740m2e3a3103x77f9c44432b1941c@mail.gmail.com>
Distinction without much of a difference. Comments in line.
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/8/25 Rocky Bernstein <rocky.bernstein@gmail.com>:
>> Thanks folks for the explanation of what's happening.
>>
>> I realize that. And IMHO I think it should support it when bash or ksh
>> emulation is in force ;-). But more troublesome is the fact that it gives
>> an error message that is probably going to be a bit puzzling to most
>> people who know ksh and bash, but zsh less so.
>
> Just wanted to point out there's no such thing as "bash emulation" in zsh. :)
> (and of course, sh doesn't support arrays at all (IIRC)).
Okay - I stand corrected here. I meant it should support it in ksh
emulation. And in both *sh* and ksh emulation, it would be helpful to
ban that from use since neither support that zsh-specific function
definition form.
Supporting array initialization like ksh and bash do is incidental.
More important I think is reducing damaging behavior when making
simple (and perhaps likely) mistakes and/or giving a more likely
understandable error message.
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-25 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-24 16:05 Rocky Bernstein
2008-08-24 16:13 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-08-24 20:32 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-08-25 0:12 ` Rocky Bernstein
2008-08-25 0:40 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-08-25 1:02 ` Rocky Bernstein [this message]
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