Re: case matching to element in array?

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 5,  2:18pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: case matching to element in array?
}
} I worked out why I got confused before:  the canonical form is
} 
}                   (${(j:|:)~fred_list})
} 
} and I was putting the ~ before the (j:|:), which is why it wasn't
} working.

Is there some reason why putting the tilde INSIDE the parens could not
be made to work as well?

    ${(j:|:~)fred_list} == ${(~j:|:)fred_list} == ${(j:|:)~fred_list}


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