From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16629 invoked from network); 7 Jul 1999 17:44:47 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 7 Jul 1999 17:44:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 8005 invoked by alias); 7 Jul 1999 17:44:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7023 Received: (qmail 7998 invoked from network); 7 Jul 1999 17:44:37 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <990707174253.ZM2490@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:42:53 +0000 In-Reply-To: <002601bec890$6fc415c0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Comments: In reply to "Andrej Borsenkow" "RE: ${(A)=xxx} - second go - now real bug." (Jul 7, 7:50pm) References: <002601bec890$6fc415c0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: "Andrej Borsenkow" , "ZSH workers mailing list" Subject: Re: ${(A)=xxx} - second go - now real bug. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Jul 7, 7:50pm, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: } Subject: RE: ${(A)=xxx} - second go - now real bug. } } Some more question. } } Documentation says "word". It prohibits ${foo=bar baz} because ``bar baz'' is } not a word. Either documentation or shell should be corrected :-) "bar baz" *is* a word. The spaces are not significant when inside ${...}; the documentation is telling you how the expression is going to be parsed. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com