From: Matthias Berndt <Berndt.Matthias@gmx.de>
To: Mike Hernandez <sequethin@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Airthmetic confusion...
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 01:39:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050517013922.21a983fb@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3060c239050516135933fd2ff6@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 16 May 2005 16:59:27 -0400
Mike Hernandez <sequethin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually what happens is that the operation and assignment are
> performed but the return code of the expression evaluates to 1, which
> is an error. I tried on my machine and get the same results:
>
> (mike@mhernandez)(24/pts)(04:45pm:05/16/05)-
> (%:~)- (( x = 0 ))
> (mike@mhernandez)(25/pts)(04:46pm:05/16/05)-
> (%:~)- echo $?
> 1
> (mike@mhernandez)(26/pts)(04:46pm:05/16/05)-
> (%:~)- echo $x
> 0
I hope, I don't missunderstood ... the first posting, but 'echo $x' is
'0'. So the value of 'x' is calculated correctly, but the returncode is
false.
> There must be a reason why assigning 0 to a variable is considered an
> error (a reason which I could speculate about, but don't know for
> sure).
Are you sure there is a reason or isn't it probably a bug?
Matthias Berndt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-16 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-16 17:55 Meino Christian Cramer
2005-05-16 20:43 ` Matthias Berndt
2005-05-16 20:59 ` Mike Hernandez
2005-05-16 21:46 ` Dan Nelson
2005-05-17 1:19 ` Mike Hernandez
2005-05-16 23:39 ` Matthias Berndt [this message]
2005-05-17 3:13 ` Meino Christian Cramer
2005-05-17 3:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-05-17 11:26 ` Mike Hernandez
2005-05-17 14:57 ` Meino Christian Cramer
2005-05-17 3:14 ` Meino Christian Cramer
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