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Re: PATCH: global assignment with intervening private parameter

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PATCH: global assignment with intervening private parameter
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 20:48:33 +0000
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On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:37:51 -0800
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The other four hunks are me getting paranoid about private somehow
> being called again while we're in the middle of a typeset, e.g.,
> something akin to
> 
>     private everything=$(private -p)
> 
> although I'm not sure that specific example would cause a problem.

No, the top-level builtin isn't called until the substitution is
completely finished.  I think you'd need something pretty seriously
asynchronous --- which I hope the now sophisticated signal queuing would
prevent...

pws

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- PATCH: global assignment with intervening private parameter
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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