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From: Greg Klanderman <gak@klanderman.net>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: array prepend
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:36:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwwbfw7q.fsf@lwm.klanderman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <130113175023.ZM5855@torch.brasslantern.com> (Bart Schaefer's message of "Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:50:23 -0800")

>>>>> On January 13, 2013 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:

> What about a special case for empty brackets?  VAR[] is not currently
> a valid identifier even though e.g. VAR[*] is.

>  	VAR[]=(this is prepended)

So that's the same as VAR[1,0]=(...) ?  It doesn't really "look" very
much like prepend to me.

>  	VAR[]+=(this is appended)
>  	VAR+=(short for 'VAR[]+=')

Does VAR+=($x) differ at all from VAR+=$x if VAR is an array?

I was thinking of maybe '++=' for prepend, the double '+' weighting
towards the front.

Greg


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-14 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <50EFB80D.30002@sergio.spb.ru>
     [not found] ` <22417.1357954693@thecus.kiddle.eu>
     [not found]   ` <20130113185141.4394d532@pws-pc.ntlworld.com>
2013-01-14  1:50     ` Bart Schaefer
2013-01-14 15:48       ` Oliver Kiddle
2013-01-17  5:02         ` Bart Schaefer
2013-01-14 18:36       ` Greg Klanderman [this message]
2013-01-17  5:00         ` Bart Schaefer
2013-01-17 14:52           ` Greg Klanderman
2013-01-17 15:49             ` Bart Schaefer
2013-01-19  7:53             ` Han Pingtian
2013-01-19 16:41               ` Bart Schaefer
2013-01-20 11:08                 ` Han Pingtian

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