From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Cc: "Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFC PATCH: Sketch at :@ subscripting
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 15:41:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb9c40f1-30a7-40fe-aba5-1d30f0856a08@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201218131815.25999-1-mikachu@gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020, at 8:18 AM, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> As the subject says, this is in a very early idea stage, but it does
> work for basic cases at least.
>
> The idea is that you can do this:
> % typeset -a somearray=( 'data here' 'some words' etc etc 1 2 3 4 ) idx=(1 3 5)
> % echo ${somearray:@idx}
> data here etc 1
>
> The way it currently works also lets you do this:
> % typeset -a somearray=( 'data here' 'some words' etc etc 1 2 3 4 )
> idx=( '(r)<->' '(I)etc' )
> % echo ${somearray:@idx}
> 1 4
>
> Not decided on if that's desirable :).
Any further feedback on this?
vq
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-27 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-18 13:18 Mikael Magnusson
2020-12-19 9:13 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-03-27 20:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-03 19:48 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-04-04 17:30 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-10 20:38 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-04-10 21:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-13 11:54 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-04-13 21:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-03-27 19:41 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
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