David L. Nicol wrote:
> in the tcsh 6.10.00 WishList file:
> > [...]
> > > echo $a:[#]
> > 16
> > > echo $a:[6-7]
> > is
> > > echo $a:[-2]
> > ng
> > [...]
Iconesque.
In Icon, if symbol x holds a string, x[2:3] means substr($x,2,1); but
if x holds
in the tcsh 6.10.00 WishList file:
> * New idea.
> Lots of people seem to like the idea to be able to do sed type
> operations on shell variables. Maybe we can extend the syntax
> of the variable editing to understand string operations.
> So I would like to be a
From: "Nathan Wiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 12:51 AM
> James Mastros wrote:
> > As far as setting|getting, I'd like to make a simple proposal. Consider
it
> > an idea for whoever writes the RFC (I'm looking at you, Nate)
> Oh, jeez, as if I didn't have enough already
James Mastros wrote:
>
> As far as setting|getting, I'd like to make a simple proposal. Consider it
> an idea for whoever writes the RFC (I'm looking at you, Nate)
Oh, jeez, as if I didn't have enough already! ;-)
> The idea is this: every variable should have a psudohash of attributes.
Idea
There are many (good) RFCs that specify new attributes. To the best of my
knowledge, there is no good RFC discussing how to go about making
attributes, setting them, and getting them.
As far as setting|getting, I'd like to make a simple proposal. Consider it
an idea for whoever writes the RFC (
