From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: Nasty bug in array-element typeset assignments
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:45:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Tc0a88d0154fbb3cdbf@mailsweeper01.cambridgesiliconradio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Oliver Kiddle"'s message of "Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:38:20 BST." <3B60012C.EF6E906A@u.genie.co.uk>
Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> Urgh. Is that really that useful? I think it'd be better to save the
> extra mess in the code and disallow it with roughly what you get by
> adding this:
>
> } else if (on & PM_LOCAL && locallevel) {
> zerrnam(cname,
> "%s, can't create local array elements", pname, 0);
> return NULL;
>
> after the similar bit for readonly inside the strchr(pname, '[') test in
> typeset_single.
Something like that would definitely be my preference.
> Incidentally, I get a couple of test failures with the latest CVS - on
> with _arguments and the other for posixbuiltins.
I get the _arguments one --- it seems to be just a matter of change of
spacing, so possibly the test itself needs updating.
I don't get the one for posixbuiltins --- and there isn't much possibility
of variation at that point, so I can't offer an explanation.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-26 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-26 5:13 Bart Schaefer
2001-07-26 9:23 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-07-26 9:28 ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-07-26 9:44 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-07-26 9:57 ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-07-26 10:04 ` Oliver Kiddle
2001-07-26 11:07 ` Oliver Kiddle
2001-07-26 11:08 ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-07-26 11:18 ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-07-26 11:38 ` Oliver Kiddle
2001-07-26 11:45 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2001-07-26 12:21 ` PATCH: posixbuiltins test (was Re: Nasty bug in array-element typeset assignments) Oliver Kiddle
2001-07-26 13:24 ` Nasty bug in array-element typeset assignments Borsenkow Andrej
2001-07-26 17:49 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-08-12 18:55 ` PATCH (?): " Bart Schaefer
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