From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>
Cc: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [[ and [
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:05:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3SE13ZTmFn42jkkmtOinyU9LaZ5OTg6H2ohQDBfmPNDMg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120307090216.GD15125@fermat.math.technion.ac.il>
On 7 March 2012 10:02, Nadav Har'El <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012, Mikael Magnusson wrote about "Re: [[ and [":
>> Incidentally, this is probably the most confusing error message ever,
>> % [ $foo == "" ]
>> zsh: = not found
>
> I see something slightly different. On zsh 4.3.15, with unset $foo, I
> get:
>
> $ [ $foo == "" ]
> zsh: parse error: condition expected: ==
>
> Which indeed is not very clear, but arguably not "the most confusing
> error message ever" ;-)
You need to not have done unsetopt equals to see the confusing one :).
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-07 9:05 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 [this message]
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
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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