Re: can combination of zstyle -e and -a cause infinite loop?

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 4,  4:45pm, Amm wrote:
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} Will any of the two cases above cause infinite loops?
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} Or zsh will detect these loops?

They'll be detected.  Testing either of the mutually recurisive styles
will always "fail":

    zstyle -a sets the array to empty but returns 0
    zstyle -s sets the scalar to empty but returns 0
    zstyle -b sets the scalar to "no" and returns 1
    zstyle -m returns 1
    zstyle -t returns 1
    zstyle -T returns 0

(This might differ if the recursive call is not the only part of one
of the eval'd strings that assigns to $reply.)

All of them print to stderr:

    zsh: job table full or recursion limit exceeded