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Re: PATCH: function copy



On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 2:51 PM Sebastian Gniazdowski
<sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have a somewhat related idea which i will now invoke because of the
> nice use case it has – a module to add before and after set/get hooks
> for parameters.

Ksh has a syntax for this: ${varname.hookname} IIRC.  The difficulty
with adopting this is that zsh's lexer has the definition of an
"identifier" fairly deeply embedded, it is nontrivial to add "." as a
valid character only when inside curly braces.



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