From: td@plan9.att.com td@plan9.att.com
Subject: rc syntax bug
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 13:11:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19960205181158.VxcNfjfXThL-JxPsKqEGKbyhhUcux8KtziZDz-zufPs@z> (raw)
Stephen Hemminger <postman.ncube.com!sch> thinks there's a bug:
>Isn't it surprising:
> if (! ~ () ()) echo 'i am a bug'
I'm sorry, what do you think the bug is?
The syntax is obviously ok, and the result is exactly what
I intended. A match against an empty list always fails, the
definition being that at least one alternative must
succeed for the match to succeed.
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1996-02-05 18:11 td [this message]
1996-02-05 22:41 Stephen
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