From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Magic associative arrays
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 05:10:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <990221051007.ZM10208@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
There are a whole lot of fun things we could do with special associative
array paramters. Examples:
An AA named "functions" that looks up values in the shell function hash
table. `functions foo` would be the same as `print $functions[foo]`. The
"functions" AA could be read-only, but perhaps it would be fun to be able
to edit the function with `noglob vared functions[foo]`?
How about an special AA named "files"? "$files[foo]" would be equivalent
to "$(<foo)". One step further: `noglob vared files[foo]` replaces `zed`
almost entirely (except for the ZLE rebinding bits). OK, maybe that one
is getting a little carried away ... but if the OS supports mmap() ...
Hmm; if only there were a way to cause a module to autoload upon reference
to a parameter that it defines ...
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com
next reply other threads:[~1999-02-21 13:10 UTC|newest]
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1999-02-21 13:10 Bart Schaefer [this message]
1999-02-22 10:51 ` Bruce Stephens
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