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Re: Chatty little precompiler for _arguments

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From: Tanaka Akira <akr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Chatty little precompiler for _arguments
Date: 23 Sep 1999 10:39:25 +0900
In-reply-to: Sven Wischnowsky's message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:43:51 +0200 (MET DST)"
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In article <199909200843.KAA06289@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
  Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I would be against this because its much less useful in cases where
> you stuff together string from multiple parameters. However, in its
> first life `:q' did that and we could use the doubled-flag convention
> so that `${(qq)foo}' would emit stuff in single quotes. (Tripled for
> double quotes?)

I found a problem about quoting.

Z(2):akr@is27e1u11% Src/zsh -f
is27e1u11% a=$'\n\n\n\n\n\n'
is27e1u11% print -lr - ${(q)a}
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  Src/zsh -f

Also I suppose that `${(qqqq)foo}' should quote foo in $'...' style.
# I really want this because I frequently use dangeraous characters
# such as NUL.
-- 
Tanaka Akira

References:
- Re: Chatty little precompiler for _arguments
  - From: Sven Wischnowsky

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