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Re: readonly bug

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: readonly bug
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 18:28:02 +0100
In-reply-to: "Zoltan Hidvegi"'s message of "Tue, 07 Jan 1997 18:09:25 MET." <199701071709.SAA24255@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
> Unfortunately read-only variables are not handled very well in most places.
> Here is a fix.  After that zsh prints error message when you attempt to
> change a read-only variable.  Patch applies to both zsh-3.0.2 and zsh-3.1.0

Thanks.  Actually, I was relying on the failure being silent,
otherwise what I was trying to do (suppress an error message from a
bad assignment in a system script I couldn't access) wouldn't work.
However, this corresponds to what ksh does.  I suppose I can't expect
unsupported hacks to work.  The script's now been fixed anyway.

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References:
- Re: readonly bug
  - From: Zoltan Hidvegi

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