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Re: Chatty little precompiler for _arguments

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Chatty little precompiler for _arguments
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:43:51 +0200 (MET DST)
In-reply-to: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:57:45 +0000
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Bart Schaefer wrote:

> though it would be really useful if $param:q could emit quoting instead of
> backslashes.

I would be against this because its much less useful in cases where
you stuff together string from multiple parameters. However, in its
first life `:q' did that and we could use the doubled-flag convention
so that `${(qq)foo}' would emit stuff in single quotes. (Tripled for
double quotes?)

Bye
 Sven

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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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