Re: first adventures

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/01/2014 02:11 PM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Perhapse the real point is what you're looking at is an unusual case in
> that you've been passed a piece of raw shell input and you're thinking
> about what it would look like if it wasn't raw any more.  This is hairy
> stuff that most people who consider themselves shell language gurus
> probably never have to think about --- extracting bits of semi-parsed
> chunks of input is something most people would do in a language like
> Lisp rather than a shell.  So it's not surprising you're a bit
> bamboozled when you're coming to this out of nowhere.
Bamboozled ain't the half of it. But it's ok, what Bart showed me is 
quite satisfactory.
I should spend less time speculating.  But I wonder if anyone in the 
next generation of
zsh users is going to be able to explain, or even understand half of 
this stuff.  Sheesh,
I thought that as a newbie, a good place to start looking at the code 
was where we
first swallow a command line.  But that was a long long time ago ;-)
> pws