Re: case matching to element in array?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

"Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> 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}

Should be trivial to implement.  It's a historical oddity that `^', `~'
and `=' came before we had far more flags than could be accommodated
without some special syntax to mark them.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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