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what should compctl's look like?

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From: Richard Coleman <coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: what should compctl's look like?
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 13:08:47 -0500
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Dec 1996 09:41:24 PST." <961201094226.ZM20801243@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Bart spoke thusly:
> A text format has some of the same problems -- I for one would love to
> see compctl move away from all these cryptic command-line switches and
> instead become a more structured construct with keywords etc.

I agree with this.  Essentially compctl is a 'language within a language'.
It would be nice to see this 'language' developed to be something less
cryptic.  What what should it look like?

Maybe someone could do some experiments with flex/lex and
yacc/bison to see what might work.

rc

Follow-Ups:
- Re: what should compctl's look like?
  - From: Zefram

References:
- Re: Autoloading of compctl from dbm database file.
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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