On 20Jun2009 11:51, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.org> wrote: | On 2009-06-19 23:43:24 +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: | > * Vincent Lefevre wrote: | > > Whenever a user-defined variable is used in an assignment for a built-in | > > variable or vice versa, Mutt string representations to do the | > > assignment. As a result, a user-defined variable can be assigned to any | > > other variable under the restriction that its content is valid. See the | > > following section for examples. | > | > > I don't understand the first sentence. [... Rocco explains ...] | > Any suggestions for a better wording (besides a missing "uses")? | | I would say that: | * User-defined variables have type string. | * The value part of a set command is a string and variables are | expanded as strings. | * In an assignment to a built-in variable, the value is parsed | according to the type of the variable. If the string | representation is invalid, an error message is displayed.
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