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diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/func.yo b/Doc/Zsh/func.yo index 28bc6329a..7c391f80d 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/func.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/func.yo @@ -158,9 +158,20 @@ If no name is given for a function, it is `anonymous' and is handled specially. Either form of function definition may be used: a `tt(())' with no preceding name, or a `tt(function)' with an immediately following open brace. The function is executed immediately at the point of definition and -is not stored for future use. The function name is set to `tt((anon))' and -the parameter list passed to the function is empty. Note that this means -the argument list of any enclosing script or function is hidden. +is not stored for future use. The function name is set to `tt((anon))'. + +Arguments to the function may be specified as words following the +closing brace defining the function, hence if there are none no +arguments (other than tt($0)) are set. This is a difference from the +way other functions are parsed: normal function definitions may be +followed by certain keywords such as `tt(else)' or `tt(fi)', which will +be treated as arguments to anonymous functions, so that a newline or +semicolon is needed to force keyword interpretation. + +Note also that the argument list of any enclosing script or function is +hidden (as would be the case for any other function called at this +point). + Redirections may be applied to the anonymous function in the same manner as to a current-shell structure enclosed in braces. The main use of anonymous functions is to provide a scope for local variables. This is particularly @@ -172,13 +183,13 @@ For example, example(variable=outside function { local variable=inside - print "I am $variable" -} + print "I am $variable with arguments $*" +} this and that print "I am $variable") outputs the following: -example(I am inside +example(I am inside with arguments this and that I am outside) Note that function definitions with arguments that expand to nothing, |