Re: other things i miss in zsh ...

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 30,  5:03pm, Richard Hartmann wrote:
}
} You are thinking of perl's
} 
} use strict;
} use warnings;
} 
} I presume. Neat idea! Especially if it fails with a verbose error
} message automagically.

Unfortnately it can't work quite that way.  Perl does a *lot* more
semantic analysis when first translating a script into its internal
compiled form than is practical for any Bourne-shell-like shell to
perform.  The shell language defintion and variable scoping rules
are not themselves strict enough to support "compile time" checking.

If you need that, write your scripts in a language that has it.

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