From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
Cc: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Allow slash in alternation patterns in limited cases?
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:45:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3TKQx4pB7uKjxwVdU+QQyeJTxo7qj6w0Xibq2V7J_Qsqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160411133145.486788a5@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Peter Stephenson
<p.stephenson@samsung.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:06:10 +0200
> Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Peter Stephenson
>> <p.stephenson@samsung.com> wrote:
>> > The point is that, unlike the ~ case which is just a flag passed in to
>> > the pattern match parser, it would longer done by pattern matching at
>> > all. It would be done in the glob code. The pattern match code would
>> > see the foo, bar, baz, bong, and it would it be reassembled higher up.
>> > So it's not so much incompatible as something utterly different.
>>
>> This is already the same difference we have between (foo|bar) in
>> globbing and pattern matching though. If it's a glob, it's handled
>> recursively by scanner() and if it's pattern, it's somewhere else (I
>> don't even know where the general pattern matching code is by heart).
>
> No, expressions like (foo|bar) are *only* handled by the pattern
> matcher. The scanner's sole responsibility is to tell the pattern
> matcher whether or not it should stop if it sees a "/".
Ah, that explains it :). Thanks.
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-11 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-10 20:36 Mikael Magnusson
2016-04-10 22:11 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-11 8:37 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-11 10:22 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-04-11 10:29 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-11 10:47 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-04-11 11:07 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-11 12:06 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-04-11 12:31 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-11 13:45 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2016-04-11 13:50 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-11 12:06 ` PATCH: Allow / in full pattern alternations Mikael Magnusson
2016-04-11 13:47 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-04-11 14:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-11 14:44 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-04-11 14:50 ` Allow slash in alternation patterns in limited cases? Bart Schaefer
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