From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by werple.mira.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA09155 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 06:01:54 +1000 Received: from math (math.skiles.gatech.edu) by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA08793 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA for ); Wed, 28 Jun 1995 16:01:16 -0400 Received: by math (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA05608; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 15:58:09 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 15:56:57 -0400 Old-Return-Path: Message-Id: <9506281956.AA05008@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: Z-Shell Frequently-Asked Questions (monthly posting) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jun 1995 20:16:12 BST." <9506281816.AA21228@turan.elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 15:56:57 -0400 From: Richard Coleman Resent-Message-Id: <"--Jnl3.0.YN1.GHRyl"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/121 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > Just one addition here: foo=* assignment assigns the list of files in the > current directory as an array to foo if there are at least two matches, or if > there is a single file in the directory, foo becames a scalar whose value is > the name of that file. Other Bourne shells does not glob the right hand side > of assignments. In my releases the default behaviour is to not glob here, but > this can be changed by setting the GLOB_ASSIGN option. > > > The $((...)) version of numeric evaluation was not available before > > version 2.6 (use $[...]). > > And even in vanila 2.6 $((...)) is done after fork, hence if used as an > argument to an external program, assignments inside $((...) has no effect. Of > course this bug is also fixed in my release. Both of these will be fixed in the baseline before the production release. I haven't forgotten about them. Whether you believe this or not, I've been working on zsh 6 or 7 days a week. I may not be fast, but I try to do things right. Richard Coleman coleman@math.gatech.edu