Re: [PATCH] Fix bang flag in ${(!)ref::=var} substitutions

Mikael Magnusson <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:44:27 +0200

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On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM Philippe Altherr
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The documentation states that with the substitution flag (!) the reference itself is examined, not its referent, but this fails in ${(!)ref::=var} substitutions:
>
> % typeset var=foo
> % typeset -n ref=var
> % echo ${(!)ref::=bar}
> bar
> % typeset -p var ref
> typeset var=bar
> typeset -n ref=var
>
> The result of the last command should be the following:
>
> typeset var=foo
> typeset -n ref=bar
>
> - Fix bang flag in ${(!)ref::=var} substitutions

You forgot to attach the patch for this one.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson