From: Nadav Har'El <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>
To: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [[ and [
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 16:11:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307141121.GA11001@fermat.math.technion.ac.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120307094347.608739c3@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012, Peter Stephenson wrote about "Re: [[ and [":
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:52:36 +0200
> Nadav Har'El <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> > The zsh manual does not state that "-eq" and the rest are obsolete (in
> > Conditional Expressions), but maybe it should:
>...
>
> 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).
Well, I agree that -eq and friends will never be removed - they existed for
at least 33 years now (since 7th edition Unix), so let them stay another 30
years ;-)). But people who read the manual can be told that there is a
newer alternative, namely ((. Also, like I said, zsh's inspiration for
the '[[' command, ksh, already declared 20 years ago that these options
are obsolete.
Anyway, it was you who said these -eq et al. were confusing :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-07 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-04 2:36 sergio
2012-03-04 4:24 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-03-06 0:32 ` sergio
2012-03-06 6:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-03-06 11:05 ` sergio
2012-03-06 11:35 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-03-06 11:44 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-03-06 11:53 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-03-07 9:02 ` Nadav Har'El
2012-03-07 9:05 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-03-07 9:21 ` Nadav Har'El
2012-03-07 15:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-03-07 8:52 ` Nadav Har'El
2012-03-07 9:43 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-03-07 14:11 ` Nadav Har'El [this message]
2012-03-07 14:27 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-03-07 18:38 ` Mark
2012-03-06 16:16 ` sergio
2012-03-06 16:29 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-03-06 17:40 ` sergio
2012-03-07 8:12 ` Nadav Har'El
2012-03-04 4:50 ` Kurtis Rader
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