From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Unset and $empty[(i)] and $empty[(I)] -- worth the effort?
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 15:13:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7aQNk4g6y2NZC0skZg+1RxKZH5GAXM1Gi6PUYi58Aa27g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Current behavior (git master branch):
5.8.0.2-dev % print $notset[(i)] $notset[(I)]
5.8.0.2-dev % typeset emptystr
5.8.0.2-dev % print $emptystr[(i)] $emptystr[(I)]
0 0
5.8.0.2-dev % typeset -a emptyarr
5.8.0.2-dev % print $emptyarr[(i)] $emptyarr[(I)]
1 0
5.8.0.2-dev % unset emptyarr
5.8.0.2-dev % print $emptyarr[(i)] $emptyarr[(I)]
5.8.0.2-dev %
I want to rationalize $emptystr[(i)] by saying that it's searching for
an empty substring and it did find one, so it can't return
(($#emptystr + 1)), but there's not really a $emptystr[0] either. In
the reverse direction, if an empty stubstring is allowed to match
there's no unambiguous answer for $emptystr[(I)].
Behavior on the declarednull branch:
delclarednull % print $notset[(i)] $notset[(I)]
delclarednull % typeset emptystr
delclarednull % print $emptystr[(i)] $emptystr[(I)]
delclarednull % emptystr=""
delclarednull % print $emptystr[(i)] $emptystr[(I)]
0 0
delclarednull % typeset -a emptyarr
delclarednull % print $emptyarr[(i)] $emptyarr[(I)]
delclarednull % emptyarr=()
delclarednull % print $emptyarr[(i)] $emptyarr[(I)]
1 0
delclarednull % unset emptyarr
delclarednull % print $emptyarr[(i)] $emptyarr[(I)]
delclarednull %
Given that the behavior on $emptystr is already poorly defined, I'm
not sure it makes much sense to put any effort into making the
uninitialized $emptyarr case differ from the $notset case.
Further opinions?
next reply other threads:[~2020-12-07 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-07 23:13 Bart Schaefer [this message]
2020-12-23 23:04 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-24 19:06 ` Phil Pennock
2020-12-29 17:54 ` Felipe Contreras
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