Re: Feature request? print -e to eval ?

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:17:14 +0000
Marc Chantreux <khatar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> i don't know about you but i often eval something i just printed.
> for exemple:
> 
> status_as_flag () { eval $( print -P "${1?flag name}=%(?.true.false)" ) }
> 
> when it would be nice to write
> 
> status_as_flag () { print -eP "${1?flag name}=%(?.true.false)" }
> 
> (no more subshell and more readable)
> 
> what to you think about the idea ?

Have a look at the (%) flag to ${...}.  For example,

${(%):-'blah blah'}

substitues blah blah expanded as a prompt.  You can assign that and
print it.

In general, assigning a value then printing it and evaluating
it if you need is probably the way to go.

pws