Re: PATCH: functions with redirections

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 29, 2014 1:53 PM, "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sep 29, 2014 12:52 PM, "Peter Stephenson" <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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> > I haven't yet looked at dump files.  That's partly becuase I don't
> > understand them and partly because I don't use them.  Any hints would be
> > great.
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> By dump files do you mean zcompile?
> I fear I'm not of much help there.

A thought:

My first idea when this came up was to alter the wordcode for functions
with redirections to explicitly add the implicit set of braces, e.g.,

foo () { echo foo } >&3

becomes

foo () { { echo foo } >&3 }

Then it would not be necessary to mess with printing/dumping etc. of the
definition, or invent a new place to store the redirections.  Yeah, output
of "functions" et al. becomes a little less faithful but so what?

Sadly I never managed to make that work, but maybe the concept is helpful
for dump file creation.