On 8/27/2018 11:54 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
From:L A Walsh
| POSIX moved away from their original mission statement of being
| "descriptive" to one that is "prescriptive" a long time ago
I don't think that's true - certainly not as much as other (related)
standards (like those f
On 8/27/18 12:25 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> This used to work:
>
> bash-4.4$ a=0
> bash-4.4$ echo $(( a[a[0]] ))
> 0
> bash-4.4$ echo ${a[a[a[0]]]}
> 0
>
> But is broken in bash-5.0:
>
> bash-5.0$ a=0
> bash-5.0$ echo ${a[a[a[0]]]}
> bash: a[a[0]]: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error
Date:Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:57:56 -0700
From:L A Walsh
Message-ID: <5b843ba4.4030...@tlinx.org>
| I certainly would not take the ever-changing POSIX spec as
| a guide to what actually exists or is implemented in the field.
| POSIX moved away from their original mis
On 8/25/2018 3:16 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Greg Wooledge wrote:
If true, that would actually violate POSIX.
You might be remembering it wrong.
Naw...just the marginalia that Bob mentions...
I also remember that at one time the Unix sleep was implemented by
polling a second granularity cloc
This used to work:
bash-4.4$ a=0
bash-4.4$ echo $(( a[a[0]] ))
0
bash-4.4$ echo ${a[a[a[0]]]}
0
But is broken in bash-5.0:
bash-5.0$ a=0
bash-5.0$ echo ${a[a[a[0]]]}
bash: a[a[0]]: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is "]")
bash-5.0$ echo $(( a[a[0]] ))
bash: a[a[0]] : syntax
> On 8/27/18 9:19 AM, weidong wrote:
> > I use ubuntu18.04, tried bash 5.0 alpha, maybe the vte's version is not the
> > same?
> > Do I need update vte library?
>
> No idea. I'll look at it some more. (And it seems to work fine using iTerm
> as well, for what that's worth.)
I tried the current de
On 8/27/18 9:19 AM, weidong wrote:
> I use ubuntu18.04, tried bash 5.0 alpha, maybe the vte's version is not the
> same?
> Do I need update vte library?
No idea. I'll look at it some more. (And it seems to work fine using iTerm
as well, for what that's worth.)
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so
On 8/26/18 9:37 PM, weidong wrote:
> I tried bash 5.0 alhpa, This bug is not fixed, but even worse.
Interesting. I can't reproduce it at all using bash-5.0, Mac OS X,
and Terminal.
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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippoc
