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I'm using zsh, and I have this function:

function timer-raw() {
    # Just think `loop fsayd` is `echo hi` for the purposes of this question.
    eval "sleep $((($1)*60))" && eval ${(q+@)@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}
}

And I want loop fsayd to be substituted as two words. I tried these variations, too, but they didn't work either:

"${(q+@)${@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}}"
"${(q@)${(q@)=@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}}"
"${(qq@)=@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}"

By "didn't work", I mean either a simple timer 0 would fail by a command not found, or that timer 0 ff hi 'man hi jk k' failed to return the correct number of input arguments. (ff() echo "$#")

I'm using zsh, and I have this function:

function timer-raw() {
    # Just think `loop fsayd` is `echo hi` for the purposes of this question.
    eval "sleep $((($1)*60))" && eval ${(q+@)@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}
}

timer-raw's first argument tells it how many minutes to wait; The rest of the arguments, if present, would be evaled as if typed on the command line, after the wait:

timer 3 echo sth
# After 3 minutes, echoes `sth`.

However, if no further arguments are supplied, I want it to run the default command loop fsayd:

timer 4
# runs `loop fsayd` after 4 minutes

The problem is that I want loop fsayd to be substituted as two words, but I don't know how. I tried these variations, too, but they didn't work either:

"${(q+@)${@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}}"
"${(q@)${(q@)=@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}}"
"${(qq@)=@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}"

By "didn't work", I mean either a simple timer 0 would fail by a command not found, or that timer 0 ff hi 'man hi jk k' failed to return the correct number of input arguments. (ff() echo "$#")

Note: I do not want to use test -z "${@[2,-1]}".

I'm using zsh, and I have this function:

function timer-raw() {
    # Just think `loop fsayd` is `echo hi` for the purposes of this question.
    eval "sleep $((($1)*60))" && eval ${(q+@)@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}
}

And I want loop fsayd to be substituted as two words. I tried these variations, too, but they didn't work either:

"${(q+@)${@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}}"
"${(q@)${(q@)=@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}}"
"${(qq@)=@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}"

By "didn't work", I mean either a simple timer 0 would fail, or that timer 0 ff hi 'man hi jk k' failed. (ff() echo "$#")

I'm using zsh, and I have this function:

function timer-raw() {
    # Just think `loop fsayd` is `echo hi` for the purposes of this question.
    eval "sleep $((($1)*60))" && eval ${(q+@)@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}
}

And I want loop fsayd to be substituted as two words. I tried these variations, too, but they didn't work either:

"${(q+@)${@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}}"
"${(q@)${(q@)=@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}}"
"${(qq@)=@[2,-1]:-loop fsayd}"

By "didn't work", I mean either a simple timer 0 would fail by a command not found, or that timer 0 ff hi 'man hi jk k' failed to return the correct number of input arguments. (ff() echo "$#")