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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: PATCH: pws-21: parentheses in command word
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 16:30:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9906081430.AA38925@ibmth.df.unipi.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ""Bart Schaefer""'s message of "Tue, 08 Jun 1999 14:51:40 DFT." <990608145140.ZM24078@candle.brasslantern.com>

"Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> } For some reason, parentheses are treated specially in the command word in
> } zsh, not just at the start (where, of course, they start a subshell).
>
> They're treated that way because array assignments are in command position.

That's a special case:  if it finds an '=' in the command word, it searches
for a '(' straight afterwards, so the code for searching for a '(' on its
own isn't used.  But maybe it was once.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>       Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW:  http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy


  reply	other threads:[~1999-06-08 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-06-08 12:06 Peter Stephenson
1999-06-08 14:51 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-06-08 14:30   ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
1999-06-09  8:11 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1999-06-09  7:50   ` Peter Stephenson

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