On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 18, 6:03am, Rocky Bernstein wrote:
}
} I sort of agree with this comment in zshmodules:
} It is unfortunate that the mechanism for loading modules
} does not yet allow the user to specify the name of the shell
} parameter to be given the special behaviour.
}
} Here's how it is done in Ruby which is extremely simple: if there is an
} associative array SCRIPT_LINES__ defined file lines are saved into this
} array when it reads a file.
I think you and the zsh/mapfile manual are talking about two different
things here.
Yes, you are correct. Automatically copying program text is what I mean and it's very useful, and used not just in debuggers but in other things. In ruby it's used I think in rcov (testing program coverage) for example.
What you seem to be asking for (based on what SCRIPT_LINES__ really
does in Ruby) is to have the zsh script parser stuff the lines it reads
into a variable as it parses them, so that (for example) "autoload"
would magically copy the function text into the SCRIPT_LINES__ array.
The excerpt above means that it's not possible when loading zsh/mapfile
to cause the variable "mapfile" to have a different name. That has
nothing to do with script parsing.