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From: Oliver Kiddle <opk@zsh.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3]: Add named references
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 10:02:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <94092-1676192523.865597@yGHQ.rexg.4E4Z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7bcqc8SsRxsht0QFyXy=DYzj6nVaBFhdzQ5MrBB+yBz+A@mail.gmail.com>

On 9 Feb, Bart Schaefer wrote (I've reordered this):
> > This should be an error perhaps:
> >
> >   typeset -n ref=arr[1][2]
>
> Why?  ${ary[1][2]} isn't an error, it's the 2nd character of the first
> word in $ary.

Sorry, should have been clearer. Applying later subscripts is even
better than an error but the following is not ideal:

  % arr=( one two three )
  % typeset -n ref=arr[2][1]
  % echo $ref
  two[1]
  % ref=x
  % typeset -p arr
  typeset -a arr=( one x three )
  % echo $ref
  x[1]
  % typeset -n ref=arr[1]whatever
  % echo $ref
  onewhatever

> Yeah, I don't like the idea that a called function can arbitrarily
> grab parameters from its caller just by sticking & in front.  Caller
> needs to do do something (even if only make "normal" use of dynamic
> scope) to make the parameter "grabbable".

Allowing such things as uplevel statements (Tcl), special syntax, or
introspection modules (Python's inspect), is fairly normal for a
scripting language.

As I've mentioned, we already have the situation where the caller
needs nothing to make a private grabable by a builtin:
  private -a var
  compadd -O var one two three
And writing wrappers to e.g. compadd is useful.

But I don't think we need to address references to privates in other
scopes at this point before the other patches are even applied. May be
better to consider whether there are other advantages in moving private
to the main shell first as that may ease any implementation.

> > >   typeset -n ref
> > >   for ref in 'hash[(e)'${(k)^hash[(R)?*]}']'; do ...
> >
> > "just"!?
>
> Hah!  Point was that it's do-able without "for"-context-sensitive
> special subscript semantics.  I think it would be strange for

I can't think of a sensible way. Was just that it could be useful.
Best long term solution might be to allow arrays of references. Bash
does allow arrays of integers.

> The others would all have to be special-cased individually.  What is
> $+ ?  Do you mean $- ?

Yes.

Oliver


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-12  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-06  2:21 Bart Schaefer
2023-02-08  3:45 ` Oliver Kiddle
2023-02-08  4:59   ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-08 23:16     ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-09  0:47     ` Oliver Kiddle
2023-02-09  2:01       ` Oliver Kiddle
2023-02-09  5:45         ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-09  4:49       ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-09 20:49         ` Oliver Kiddle
2023-02-09 23:07           ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-11  3:04             ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-11  3:55               ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-11  5:36                 ` Speaking of dangerous referents Bart Schaefer
2023-02-12  8:00                   ` Oliver Kiddle
2023-02-12  8:34                     ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-11  7:02               ` [PATCH 1/3]: Add named references Oliver Kiddle
2023-02-11  7:45                 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-11 23:43                   ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-11 23:45                     ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-12  7:38                     ` Oliver Kiddle
2024-02-11  7:00                   ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-02-11 16:14                     ` Bart Schaefer
2024-02-11 16:42                       ` Bart Schaefer
2024-02-18  3:26                       ` Up-scope named references, vs. ksh Bart Schaefer
2024-02-20 21:05                         ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-02-20 22:30                           ` Bart Schaefer
2024-02-21 20:12                             ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-02-29  5:16                               ` Bart Schaefer
2024-03-01 18:22                                 ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-03-01 20:34                                   ` Bart Schaefer
2024-03-02  7:29                                     ` Bart Schaefer
2024-03-02 23:55                                       ` [PATCH] "typeset -nu" (was Re: Up-scope named references, vs. ksh) Bart Schaefer
2024-03-01 23:28                                   ` Up-scope named references, vs. ksh Bart Schaefer
2024-03-03 13:44                                     ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-03-03 19:04                                       ` Bart Schaefer
2024-03-03 20:27                                         ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-03-03 22:58                                           ` Bart Schaefer
2024-03-04 19:59                                             ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-03-05  1:05                                             ` Oliver Kiddle
2024-03-05  2:53                                               ` Bart Schaefer
2024-03-05  5:43                                                 ` Mikael Magnusson
2024-03-05  6:30                                                   ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-03-06  5:04                                                     ` [PATCH] local vs. nameref scoping (was Re: Up-scope named references, vs. ksh) Bart Schaefer
2023-02-12  9:02             ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2023-02-12 18:59               ` [PATCH 1/3]: Add named references Bart Schaefer
2023-02-12 19:45                 ` PM_* flags in zsh.h (was Re: [PATCH 1/3]: Add named references) Bart Schaefer
2023-02-12 21:01                   ` Oliver Kiddle
2023-02-12 22:54                 ` [PATCH 1/3]: Add named references Oliver Kiddle

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