From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with SMTP id IAA21451 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 08:48:22 +1000 (EST) Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA16893 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA for ); Thu, 26 Oct 1995 18:46:52 -0400 Received: by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA25982; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 18:43:47 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 16:44:33 -0600 Old-Return-Path: Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 16:44:33 -0600 Message-Id: <9510262244.AA21513@charney.cdc.noaa.gov> From: Mark Borges To: ZSH mailing list Subject: Re: ZSH's future [longish] ? In-Reply-To: <199510262212.XAA10168@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> References: <9510260626.AA26444@bjerknes.cdc.noaa.gov> <199510262212.XAA10168@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Organization: CIRES, University of Colorado X-Attribution: mb Resent-Message-Id: <"2zLRr2.0.qL6.Yy0am"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/496 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu Thanks for the comments, Zoltan. >> On Thu, 26 Oct 1995 16:13:26 +0100 (MET), >> Zoltan Hidvegi(Z) wrote: >> The code should conform to the IEEE POSIX 1003.1 standard and to >> the proposed ANSI-C standard so that it should be portable to all >> such Z> Thanks to Richard, zsh is one of the most portable program I've Z> ever seen. I think ksh could'n beat it. Yes, I agree. Richard should take a bow here ;-). Z> and command line editing is unbeatable. Yep. zle wins over readline in my book. >> o Arrays: KSH-93 supports both indexed and associative arrays. The >> subscript for an indexed array is an arithmetic expression, >> whereas, the subscript for an associative array is a string. Z> I think zsh provides all of these array features. Some of this Z> code is broken in the baseline version, but I fixed these problems Z> long ago. Does zsh support associative arrays? Z> But it can also be used as a powerful script language. An example: Z> with my releases the expansion of ${${(f)$( the list of the group names from /etc/groups. Uh-oh. If I use the (f) qualifier I only get the first line -- without it, I get all the group names in a single line separated by whitespace. A bug in my (old) hzoli version -- 2.6-beta11-test7-hzoli11 -- perhaps? Thanks again everyone for the comments. Unless I receive some objections, I plan to collect information from this thread and create a summary article to put on the web site. With proper credits/acknowledgements, of course. -mb-