From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8888 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2012 09:43:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 16859 Received: (qmail 10631 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2012 09:43:56 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at csr.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:43:47 +0000 From: Peter Stephenson To: Subject: Re: [[ and [ Message-ID: <20120307094347.608739c3@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> In-Reply-To: <20120307085236.GC15125@fermat.math.technion.ac.il> References: <4F52D510.6000002@sergio.spb.ru> <120303202448.ZM21278@torch.brasslantern.com> <4F555B0B.1050401@sergio.spb.ru> <120305220555.ZM27709@torch.brasslantern.com> <4F55EF85.3050809@sergio.spb.ru> <20120306113532.789859ca@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> <20120306114404.359e1c9d@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> <20120307085236.GC15125@fermat.math.technion.ac.il> Organization: Cambridge Silicon Radio X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.0; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.101.10.170] X-Scanned-By: MailControl 7.6.6 (www.mailcontrol.com) on 10.71.0.143 On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:52:36 +0200 Nadav Har'El wrote: > The zsh manual does not state that "-eq" and the rest are obsolete (in > Conditional Expressions), but maybe it should: Actually, I don't consider them obsolete. I prefer [[ $n -gt 1 && $m == foo ]] to the rather cluttered (( n > 1 )) && [[ $m == foo ]] There's no gain in us getting rid of them anyway, so declaring them obsolete is confusing people (we've had this with similar features there's no point in removing). -- Peter Stephenson Software Engineer Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070 Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Member of the CSR plc group of companies. CSR plc registered in England and Wales, registered number 4187346, registered office Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, United Kingdom More information can be found at www.csr.com. Follow CSR on Twitter at http://twitter.com/CSR_PLC and read our blog at www.csr.com/blog