It's not a bug - $name is only set by defines.
On 5/11/2008, at 4:23 AM, Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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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