From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Assigning to $0 (formerly: PATCH: funcstack[-1])
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:51:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3S=saLaYHy-L+D02Wc=172cFRDpB8wXs+mZteETay4Qmg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <160214135247.ZM3326@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Feb 5, 10:27pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> }
> } By the way, looking at the code I just notice that the following isn't
> } an error even though it doesn't do what you presumably expect:
> }
> } % setopt posixargzero
> } % print $0
> } zsh
> } % 0=foo
> } % print $0
> } zsh
> }
> } Maybe that's OK so far, but you don't even get the value back when you
> } unset the option; it's silently lost.
>
> So what behavior would be preferable?
>
> 1. POSIXARGZERO makes $0 report an error on assignment (read only?)
>
> 2. the value is stored and reappears when POSIXZERO is unset?
>
> 3. as (2) but a warning is printed?
>
> As another by-the-way:
>
> torch% print $0; () { typeset -g 0=argzero; print $0 }; print $0
> Src/zsh
> argzero
> Src/zsh
>
> So typeset will accept 0 as a valid name and -g as a valid option, but
> can't actually set the global $0.
http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2015/msg01400.html Some time before
that patch, assigning to $0 was always possible, but at some point it
stopped working.
--
Mikael Magnusson
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2016-02-05 22:27 ` PATCH: funcstack[-1] (formerly Suppress tracing of "set +x") Peter Stephenson
2016-02-07 0:22 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-02-14 21:52 ` Assigning to $0 (formerly: PATCH: funcstack[-1]) Bart Schaefer
2016-02-15 6:51 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2016-02-15 9:17 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-02-15 17:08 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-02-15 17:12 ` Mikael Magnusson
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