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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
To: wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Sven Wischnowsky)
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: completion grouping (yes, again)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:39:22 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E11lsZW-0007gu-00@crucigera.fysh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199911111133.MAA28902@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> from Sven Wischnowsky at "Nov 11, 1999 12:33:14 pm"

Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
>>  Slightly icky thought:  Maybe we need
>> a variant of "emulate" that gets undone on *entry* to a called function
>> as well as on exit from the calling function?
>
>That's something I've been wishing for for parameters, btw. I mean,
>sometimes it's nice to be able to set parameters locally so that
>called functions use them instead of the global ones. But in functions 
>like `_arguments' it would be nice to be able to define the locals
>syntactically local.

I would have suggested this a while ago, but didn't because it didn't seem
really feasible in a shell.  Still, Lisp managed to make the transition
to lexical scoping, let's go for it...

-zefram


  reply	other threads:[~1999-11-11 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-11 11:33 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-11-11 11:39 ` Zefram [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-11-10  9:43 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-11-11 10:57 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-11-09 12:07 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-11-09 17:59 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-11-09 19:14   ` Bart Schaefer

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