From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12824 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1999 01:55:56 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Mar 1999 01:55:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 7011 invoked by alias); 11 Mar 1999 01:55:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5747 Received: (qmail 6990 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1999 01:55:34 -0000 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Path: mason From: mason@primenet.com.au (Geoff Wing) Newsgroups: lists.zsh.workers Subject: Re: Z-Shell (zsh) FAQ changes this month Date: 11 Mar 1999 01:53:27 GMT Organization: PrimeNet Computer Consultants Distribution: local Message-ID: References: <9902250957.AA30563@ibmth.df.unipi.it>; from "Peter Stephenson" on Thu 25 Feb 1999 (10:57 +0100) <19990309005325.C11578@fysh.org> Reply-To: mason@primenet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: coral.primenet.com.au X-Trace: coral.primenet.com.au 921117207 12508 203.43.15.2 (11 Mar 1999 01:53:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@coral.primenet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Mar 1999 01:53:27 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.4 (UNIX) Phil Pennock typed: :Okay, I've caught up on everything and not seen anything on this, so... :Typing away merrily, Peter Stephenson produced the immortal words: :> 3.22: How do I get a variable's value to be evaluated as another variable? :> There is no standard single-stage way of doing this. However, there :> is a zsh idiom (available in all versions of zsh since 5.0) for this: :zsh 5.0 already? I wasn't busy _that_ long. You mean, you missed the big discussion that we're emulating Solaris versioning :-) -- Geoff Wing Mobile : (Australia) 0412 162 441 Work URL: http://www.primenet.com.au/ Ego URL: http://pobox.com/~gcw/