From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8783 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2001 12:28:39 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 17 Dec 2001 12:28:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 23717 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2001 12:28:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 16355 Received: (qmail 23705 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2001 12:28:34 -0000 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: PATCH: += parameter assignments In-reply-to: "Borsenkow Andrej"'s message of "Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:11:27 +0300." <000001c186f3$f4b82bd0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:28:01 +0000 Message-ID: <8682.1008592081@csr.com> From: Peter Stephenson 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 Software Engineer CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070 ********************************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. **********************************************************************