On 04/08/2016 05:57 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Do we want to deal with these cases spinning the cpu,
in further patches?
seq 1 nan 1
NaN should be an error in any of the operands.
seq 1 .0000000000000000000000000000001 1
For this I suggest the following heuristic. When inferring a format that
would apply to two or more lines of output, try formatting the first two
lines and report an error if they are the same. That would catch the
seeming infinite loop (and at any rate, inadequate output) in this example.
As an aside, I see FreeBSD requires the STEP to be in the right direction
when FIRST != LAST, or it will also exit with error.
GNU will just output nothing in that case.
Outputting nothing sounds better. 'seq 1 0' is like 'for (i = 1; i <= 0;
i++) ...'
