* Unset and $empty[(i)] and $empty[(I)] -- worth the effort?
@ 2020-12-07 23:13 Bart Schaefer
2020-12-23 23:04 ` Felipe Contreras
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From: Bart Schaefer @ 2020-12-07 23:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zsh hackers list
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?
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* Re: Unset and $empty[(i)] and $empty[(I)] -- worth the effort?
2020-12-07 23:13 Unset and $empty[(i)] and $empty[(I)] -- worth the effort? Bart Schaefer
@ 2020-12-23 23:04 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-24 19:06 ` Phil Pennock
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Felipe Contreras @ 2020-12-23 23:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bart Schaefer; +Cc: Zsh hackers list
On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 5:13 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> 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.
True. I misunderstood what $arr[(i|I)] did, and I can't find any
documentation about them.
But given what I can gather from the tests, it probably is not a
use-case that anybody would care deeply about, ever. If it turns out
somebody does, that can be fixed later.
That's my two cents.
Cheers.
--
Felipe Contreras
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* Re: Unset and $empty[(i)] and $empty[(I)] -- worth the effort?
2020-12-23 23:04 ` Felipe Contreras
@ 2020-12-24 19:06 ` Phil Pennock
2020-12-29 17:54 ` Felipe Contreras
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Phil Pennock @ 2020-12-24 19:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Felipe Contreras; +Cc: Zsh hackers list
On 2020-12-23 at 17:04 -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> True. I misunderstood what $arr[(i|I)] did, and I can't find any
> documentation about them.
zshparam(1), "Subscript Flags".
It's sometimes a little confusing that most of the expansion flags are
in zshexpn(1), except these.
-Phil
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* Re: Unset and $empty[(i)] and $empty[(I)] -- worth the effort?
2020-12-24 19:06 ` Phil Pennock
@ 2020-12-29 17:54 ` Felipe Contreras
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Felipe Contreras @ 2020-12-29 17:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Phil Pennock; +Cc: Zsh hackers list
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 1:06 PM Phil Pennock
<zsh-workers+phil.pennock@spodhuis.org> wrote:
>
> On 2020-12-23 at 17:04 -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > True. I misunderstood what $arr[(i|I)] did, and I can't find any
> > documentation about them.
>
> zshparam(1), "Subscript Flags".
>
> It's sometimes a little confusing that most of the expansion flags are
> in zshexpn(1), except these.
Ahh, I see. Thank you.
--
Felipe Contreras
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