From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Associative array sorting
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:13:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA=-s3wXQ=+s_gLJ8rWoR2J9LD-+6WtH78r9Kb2vSo5xty7D_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e648e57-3ee3-4b70-b95b-bb1475b9c760@gmx.com>
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It sounds good, but *a* applies to indexes, not keys, and those aren't the
same thing. Mind, I think that it would be good if, at least for purposes
of expansion flags, indexes and keys *were* unified, so e.g. *k* on a
regular array would return an array of indexes, and *kv* would interleave
indexes with values (like Python enumerate), etc. But that's not the case
today.
On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 11:45 PM Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 1/19/24 14:18, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > I was just looking at this in the manual --
> >
> > a
> > Sort in array index order; when combined with 'O' sort in reverse
> > array index order. Note that 'a' is therefore equivalent to the
> > default but 'Oa' is useful for obtaining an array's elements in
> > reverse order.
> >
> > Like (o), (a) applies after the param is turned into an ordinary
> > array, so "equivalent to the default" kind of gets us off the hook,
> > but this would be the obvious place to attach sorting the associative
> > array by key rather than by raw hash traversal.
> >
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me.
>
>
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
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2024-01-19 19:18 Bart Schaefer
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