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Re: PATCH: Clarify namespaces starting with a .

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PATCH: Clarify namespaces starting with a .
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 18:56:59 -0700
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/workers/53661>
In-reply-to: <20250522013902.14555-1-mikachu@gmail.com>
List-id: <zsh-workers.zsh.org>
References: <20250522013902.14555-1-mikachu@gmail.com>

On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The way this was written to me implied that the . was so optional that it referred to the same parameter, but this is not the case, so clarify this. Also remove duplicated text

I'm fine with this.

> It seems that leading dots are now also allowed for non-namespace parameters, eg .foo=bar but I'm not sure if this is already mentioned somewhere?

Hmm, it may not be documented anywhere other than in the K02 test file:

  .k=OK
  print ${.k}
0:Bare namespace is usable (ksh compatibility)
>OK

References:
- PATCH: Clarify namespaces starting with a .
  - From: Mikael Magnusson

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