On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:36 PM, David Lehmann < david.lehm...@alumni.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> My issue is that the resulting behavior in Exercise 1 does not make sense. > > The resulting value of i should have no bearing on the exit code. If the > addition succeeded, the expression should return 0 (success). If i was not > an integer (e.g. i=hello), then I expect (( i++ )) to return a non-zero > error code. > > ...IMHO, of course. > > Then what do you expect to happen for i=0; if ((i)); then echo "hi"; fi ? Making the value of i not affect the exit status would make (( practically worthless for most things
