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RE: PATCH: Add jobdirs association to parameter module

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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Sven Wischnowsky" <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: PATCH: Add jobdirs association to parameter module
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:55:16 +0300
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>
> I agree that it would be nice to have this cleaner so I just tried to
> allow dots in parameter names by simply adding `typtab['.'] |= IIDENT;'
> to inittyptab(). It /seems/ to work, only `$.a.b' doesn't (but
> `${.a.b}' does), haven't found the place where it fails yet -- mainly
> because I haven't really searched for it.
>

I do not think it is a problem. We already have a lot of modifiers that are
valid only inside of ${...} So, we could just as well state, that ${.x.y.z}
refers to object z defined in namespace .x.y.

As long as .x.y.z=foo and typeset .x.y.z work - I think, this restriction is
acceptable.

/andrej

References:
- Re: PATCH: Add jobdirs association to parameter module
  - From: Sven Wischnowsky

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