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From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Index of element after width of characters
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:31:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3Qzr6LEYMXXoHbTuiAqc8fadiP8A6uQyS77w3KkoDo7bQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKc7PVAffA-TBHtaCdcYhMnPpDFv26cnYjTFafYBL1ib=rJKXA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Sebastian Gniazdowski
<sgniazdowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> After thinking this through I would want to use "<", ",", ">". Could I
> allocate those symbols? Very mnemonic and nice, the use would be
> ${(<:10:)a}, ${(,:10:)a}, ${(>:10:)a} for index before width, index at
> width, index after width. I checked that they work with parser.
>
> PS. The code works in D07multibyte.ztst, so the tests issue is solved.

Wouldn't it make more sense to use syntax like $a[(y)10,-1] and
$a[1,(y)10] ? That's also less likely to trouble Bart since we only
have about 9 flags in that namespace. For example the (w) flag works
this way, making the number refer to words rather than characters in
the string.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson


  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-28 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-27 17:18 Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-27 19:41 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-10-27 19:55 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-27 21:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-10-28  7:46   ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-28  7:54     ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-28 11:38       ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-28 13:31         ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2015-10-28 15:46           ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-28 15:59             ` Peter Stephenson
2015-10-28 16:37               ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-28 23:07               ` Bart Schaefer
2015-10-29  9:42                 ` Peter Stephenson

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