On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 16:39:29 +0200 Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > As much as I hate the weird || ( use ? ( ) ) and empty block rules, > > it would be worse to have them apply in some situations but not > > others. > > Indeed, makes sense. Would it also make sense to have some more > logical meaning in a future EAPI ? I mean, in every context I've ever > seen, applying a rule to the empty set is the neutral of that rule, > so that it preserves associativity. > That'd mean: || ( ) is false, && ( ) is true, ^^ ( ) is false, ?? ( ) > is false.
The sensible thing to do is ban it, and additionally ban use? ( ) inside || and ^^ (if we've not done that already...). -- Ciaran McCreesh
