zsh-workers
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: "Zsh Hackers' List" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: parameter substitution for exclusion by array
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:55:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3TE2rwtnB2R7+MLtNVvbNhqp5Fz4A67FPqkYt6H0tiBtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120420202051.367d012e@pws-pc.ntlworld.com>

On 2012-04-20, Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> Then I realised it was a trivial modification to get the intersection of
> two arrays instead.  For that, ${...:&...} might be nice, but :& can be
> a history modifier.  So I picked ${...:*...} as being the nearest thing
> that wasn't used.

Using ${path:*notexist} prints all elements of $path, not sure if that
is what one should expect or not. ${path:|notexist} does the same but
that makes a lot more sense to me :). ${path:*SCALAR} and :| act the
same way, substitute all elements in $path.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-22 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-20 19:20 Peter Stephenson
2012-04-21 21:05 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-21 21:48   ` Bart Schaefer
2012-04-21 22:06     ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-22 12:55 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2012-04-22 18:20   ` Peter Stephenson
2012-04-23 13:54     ` PATCH: NEWS: mention new array operations Mikael Magnusson

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAHYJk3TE2rwtnB2R7+MLtNVvbNhqp5Fz4A67FPqkYt6H0tiBtQ@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=mikachu@gmail.com \
    --cc=p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com \
    --cc=zsh-workers@zsh.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.vuxu.org/mirror/zsh/

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).