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[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 16:11:22 +0200
Nadav Har'El <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> 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 ((.

That's true.

> Anyway, it was you who said these -eq et al. were confusing :-)

I like confusing myself, it's one of the ways I know both I and the
world still exist.

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--- Doc/Zsh/cond.yo	24 Oct 2011 15:35:14 -0000	1.10
+++ Doc/Zsh/cond.yo	7 Mar 2012 14:24:09 -0000
@@ -151,6 +151,11 @@ based on ASCII value of their characters
 )
 item(var(exp1) tt(-eq) var(exp2))(
 true if var(exp1) is numerically equal to var(exp2).
+Note that for purely numeric comparisons use of the
+tt(LPAR()LPAR())var(...)tt(RPAR()RPAR()) builtin described in
+ifzman(the section `ARITHMETIC EVALUATION')\
+ifnzman(noderef(Arithmetic Evaluation)) is more convenient than
+conditional expressions.
 )
 item(var(exp1) tt(-ne) var(exp2))(
 true if var(exp1) is numerically not equal to var(exp2).

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