From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: PATCH: += parameter assignments
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:28:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8682.1008592081@csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Borsenkow Andrej"'s message of "Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:11:27 +0300." <000001c186f3$f4b82bd0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>
Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > One possible extension beyond what ksh does would be to also add a -=
> > assignment. It could be made to prepend to string and array values
> > which would be fairly useful. Or does anyone think that that behaviour
> > for -= would be too illogical?
>
> I would prefer += and =+ but that probably breaks ksh93 compatibility.
Using =+ as a special token would break all sorts of things fairly
horribly.
integer i=+3
i=+6
I don't imagine anyone's crying out for the prepending behaviour at the
moment.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-17 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-17 12:02 Oliver Kiddle
2001-12-17 12:11 ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-12-17 12:28 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2001-12-17 12:28 ` Oliver Kiddle
2002-01-07 17:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-01-14 12:45 Oliver Kiddle
2002-01-14 13:04 ` Peter Stephenson
2002-01-14 18:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-01-15 16:16 ` Oliver Kiddle
2002-01-15 17:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-01-16 14:43 ` Oliver Kiddle
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