On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 04:01:06PM +0100, Thomas Bellman wrote:
> 
> Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 06:03:24AM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> >> How do I reference the values of the array in this block:
> >>
> >> notify { ["bin", "etc", "lib", "man", "src", "tmp", "var"] :
> >>   message => "jeff: $name"
> >> }
> >>
> >> i.e., what do I use in place of "$name"?
> > 
> > As far as I know, foo { [a, b, c]: } is purely a syntactic shortcut for:
> > foo { a: } foo { b: } foo { c: }
> > 
> > In other words, there are actually 7 different resources in your example.
> 
> But, what he wants to do is to avoid having to repeat all the "bin", "etc",
> and so on; he doesn't want to write:
> 
>      notify {
>       "bin": message => "jeff: bin";
>       "etc": message => "jeff: etc";
>       "lib": message => "jeff: lib";
>      }

Oh, I thought that Jeff's example did do that, but he wanted:
message => "jeff: bin etc lib man ..."

Now I tested this and can see that $name gets expanded to an empty
string in his example, which I think is a bug.

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