From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: More POSIX developments
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:49:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13642.1096886961@trentino.logica.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410041023.i94ANvFc011725@news01.csr.com>
Peter wrote:
> Before I commit the patch, here's some proposed documentation.
>
> item(tt([) [ var(arg) ... ] tt(]))(
> Like the system version of tt(test). Added for compatibility;
> use conditional expressions instead (see noderef(Conditional Expressions)).
> +The main differences are: this command is not handled syntactically, so for
> +example an empty variable expansion may cause an argument to be omitted;
> +syntax errors cause status 2 to be returned instead of a shell error; and
> +arithmetic operators expect integer arguments rather than arithemetic
> +expressions.
Reading that, it isn't clear whether the differences listed are relative
to "the system version of test" or to Conditional Expressions.
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-04 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-25 2:08 Bart Schaefer
2004-09-27 11:04 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-10-02 21:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-10-04 10:23 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-10-04 10:49 ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2004-10-25 16:05 ` Bart Schaefer
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