From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ${!nameref} in ksh emulation and ${(!)nameref} natively
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 19:51:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7YVxegCBJ0CpKHEj_LkoBZ7gepd0Zdkaux8-xuFU3K7AQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7ap3adBNf9yDczESj0JuruGdMoW0ZfuQpWn834NFtY9uQ@mail.gmail.com>
I'm going to go ahead and commit this (with a typo fix) because the
subsequent patch includes bug fixes. If there's an objection to
${(!)...} it can be undone later.
On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 3:27 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> As discussed in workers/51495 and referrers, this implements expanding
> a named reference to the name of its referent rather than the value.
>
> Included are expanded comments documenting other ways that ${!...} is
> interpreted in bash, for us to potentially follow in the future.
>
> No doc yet, as this may still be controversial?
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