From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Cc: Dieter Lambrecht <dieter.lambrecht@db.com>
Subject: Re: zsh-4.2.1: LINENO lost in evals
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:10:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0409010801460.15271@toltec.zanshin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409011202.i81C27ic008335@news01.csr.com>
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> "Dieter Lambrecht" wrote:
> >#! /bin/zsh -x
>
> (There must be a set -x or setopt xtrace lurking somewhere.)
Welcome back, Peter. :-)
> It's not actually lost, it's showing you the line in the eval. That's
> a feature (compare error messages from Perl evals, which is where we
> pinched the output format from).
The thing is, Perl has two kinds of "eval":
schaefer[676] perl <<\EOF
print __LINE__."\n";
eval 'print __LINE__."\n"';
eval { print __LINE__."\n"; };
EOF
1
1
3
The kind in braces, which gets precompiled, behaves differently than the
kind in quotes. Zsh only has the kind in quotes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-01 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-17 8:27 Dieter Lambrecht
2004-09-01 12:02 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-09-01 15:10 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2004-09-02 13:57 Dieter Lambrecht
2004-09-02 15:53 ` Peter Stephenson
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