Re: Test Failures

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Wayne Davison wrote:
> Not quite: it might reject any typeset -T without the new separator arg.
> The reason is that it checks if argv[3] is non-NULL, which is not a
> valid thing to do if argv[2] is NULL.  I just checked in a fix.

Thanks, that seems to fix both problems, though I'm not sure why...

Here's a more specific test for the new syntax.

Index: Test/B02typeset.ztst
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Test/B02typeset.ztst,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 B02typeset.ztst
--- Test/B02typeset.ztst	6 Dec 2002 10:23:21 -0000	1.4
+++ Test/B02typeset.ztst	25 Sep 2003 09:36:48 -0000
@@ -195,6 +195,18 @@
 >i:n:n:e:r
 >outer
 
+ typeset -TU MORESTUFF=here-we-go-go-again morestuff '-'
+ print -l $morestuff
+0:Tied arrays with separator specified
+>here
+>we
+>go
+>again
+
+ typeset -T THIS will not work
+1:Tied array syntax
+?(eval):typeset:1: -T requires names of scalar and array
+
  local array[2]=x
 1:Illegal local array element assignment
 ?(eval):local:1: array[2]: can't create local array elements

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