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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Assigning an array to a nameref "placeholder"
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:10:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7ZhN0=WXdcDuNzEo5gVN6P9uDw1Gx5zB3tNYRPXuKEigQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240227064807.xa77q6qjek77nekq@chazelas.org>

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:48 PM Stephane Chazelas
<stephane@chazelas.org> wrote:
>
> 2024-02-26 14:18:03 -0800, Bart Schaefer:
> >
> > > nameref unsetref; unsetref+=(foo bar). This now produces a "removing nameref attribute" warning before performing the assignment.
> >
> > I would rather make this an error, but it's probably not difficult
> > either way.  Comments?
>
> An error (or forbidding typeset -n ref=var without the =var part
> like in mksh) would make a lot more sense to me as well.

Forbidding "typeset -n ref" would make using the "for" loop variation
a bit weird, but I'm perfectly fine with an error on assigning
something nonsensical to a nameref.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-28  2:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-26 22:18 Bart Schaefer
2024-02-27  2:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-02-27  4:56   ` [PATCH] Appending an array to a scalar Bart Schaefer
2024-02-27  6:48 ` Assigning an array to a nameref "placeholder" Stephane Chazelas
2024-02-28  2:10   ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2024-02-28  5:28     ` Stephane Chazelas

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