Re: loving zsh, crashing zsh...

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Sebastian Stark wrote:
> Is it the "alternate forms for complex commands" you are refering to
> here?

Yes.

> In the manual it says:
> 
>        "Many of zsh's complex commands have alternate forms.  These
> particular versions of complex commands should  be  considered
> deprecated  and  may  be  removed  in the future.
> versions in the previous section should be preferred instead."
> 
> When will they finally go away or be disabled by default? I once
> converted all my scripts and functions to use these alternate forms,
> because I thought it would be good. Later I read this paragraph in the
> manual and realized it is not good to change the well established
> shell syntax in such a massive way. I then reverted all the changes I
> made to my stuff. (As a side effect non-zsh users are now able to
> understand my scripts.)

Currently there are no plans to remove them completely, but I'm very
happy to have people discouraged from using them, for reasons the
problem here at least partly indicates and you've at least partly
discovered.

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