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Re: PATCH: Fix two bugs in typeset_setbase



On Sun, 3 May 2015 22:43:46 +0200
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Perhaps we should apply some limit to the precision of floats? For example,
> typeset -F 100000000 foo; echo $foo
> succeeds, and at least in my setup, causes typing at the next
> commandline to be very slow, because of multiple calls to
> setunderscore(). It doesn't seem to affect zsh -f. This could also be
> a case of "don't do that then". :)

Yes, it's not exactly a bug... but I guess it's easy to set it to some
documented ceiling where it's definitely not going to make a practical
difference.  100 or 1000?

pws



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