Re: PATCH Re: Parameter error trapped too late

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

"Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> schaefer<501> typeset 30=foo
> zsh: not an identifier: 30
> 
> We could refine the error message if that's desirable, but bash2 gives a
> similar "not a valid identifier" in that example.

Yes, but bash doesn't allow `30=foo' as a normal assignment whereas zsh
does, so I think a different error message here might be better.
Something like `identifier not allowed in this context'.

Otherwise this is fine --- there's no likelihood of us allowing
individual positional parameters to be made local.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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