On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:31:59AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
that's a very elegant solution. but alas,
It has its flaws, but it's useful in many circimstances nonetheless. I've used, named tl, instead, a few times when I new the first argument to a fn would be a word, and I needed to shift it off, and as the following arguments had been parsed by the shell to begin with, I knew they'd be parsed the same again.
Nevertheless, here's an unpleasant rc solution:
fn myshift {
* = $$1
eval 'shift; '$1' = $*'
}
Or, you can just use sh(1), where you have ${tl}, subfn,
(hd tl) := list
and so forth.
--
Kris Maglione
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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