Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: zsh-workers@zsh.org To: zsh-workers@zsh.org From: Emanuel Berg Subject: Re: virtual files? Followup-To: gmane.comp.shells.zsh.user Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 03:06:46 +0000 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <87y489dlmh.fsf@student.uu.se> References: <8760vdrt5y.fsf@student.uu.se> <1302351461115632@web4o.yandex.ru> <87zispqb9m.fsf@student.uu.se> <1589901461119495@web4m.yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-9ce1e655.08-680-7570702.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DcwLzuODTg2vocc8PYWCv5ERVAo= Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org X-Seq: zsh-workers 38299 "Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)" writes: > For `wget -Ofoo` there may not be any variable/data > structure. At all, file `foo` in this example is > created by *wget*, zsh *cannot* intervent here ... OK. > ... syntactic sugar Syntax sugar would (could) be not just "sugar" because it would be automatic, so less error prone, and there could be other advantages as well, e.g. the automatization could come up with random names and/or check for existing files before creation, then lock the file, and delete it as well when the scope ends. -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 26 Blogomatic articles -