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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Arith parsing bug with minus after $#
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 11:09:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7auvZdfD2ucVW=hD-SikL07XJwPhGP4KB-wt5R2JqHzsw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150529160237.6f329071@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>

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On May 29, 2015 8:02 AM, "Peter Stephenson" <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
wrote:
>
>
> The problem is the overloading of "#" --- the test to establish what to
> do with it is trying too hard to resolve to ${#-}, which is a valid
> substitution, because it hasn't taken into account that there are no
> braces.  So what you're seeing is ${#-}1.

I think this actually was discussed on austin-group a few months back.  My
recollection is that zsh's behavior was deemed permissible and I therefore
thought no more about it at the time.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-29 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-28 19:42 Martijn Dekker
2015-05-29 15:02 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-29 15:43   ` Martijn Dekker
2015-05-29 18:09   ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2015-05-29 19:33     ` Martijn Dekker
2015-05-29 20:48       ` ZyX
2015-05-29 21:24         ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-30 19:24           ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-30 19:40             ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-30 22:28               ` Bart Schaefer
2015-05-30 23:30                 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-06-07  1:08   ` Bart Schaefer

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