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diff --git a/README b/README index d5343db19..9de5eb4a9 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -79,6 +79,14 @@ Other aspects of EXIT trap handling have not changed --- there is still only one EXIT trap at any point in a programme, so it is not generally useful to combine POSIX and non-POSIX behaviour in the same script. +4) There was an undocumented feature dating from the early days of zsh +that glob qualifiers consisting only of the digits 0 to 7 were treated +as an octal file mode to "and" with the modes of files being tested. +This has been removed in order to be more sensitive to syntax errors. +The "f" qualifier has for many years been the documented way of testing +file modes; it allows the "and" test ("*(f+1)" is the documented +equivalent of "*(1)") as well as many other forms. + Incompatibilities between 5.0.8 and 5.2 --------------------------------------- |