On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:26:37PM +, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 07:34:06PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:09:02AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
> > > $ echo $(( ( $( date +%m ) - 1 ) / 3 + 1 ))
> > > arithmetic expression: expecting ')': " ( 09
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 07:34:06PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:09:02AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
> > $ echo $(( ( $( date +%m ) - 1 ) / 3 + 1 ))
> > arithmetic expression: expecting ')': " ( 09 - 1 ) / 3 + 1 "
...
> This was done to avoid an inconsistency where co
On 21/09/2012 1:20 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Wolfskill wrote:
$ echo $(( 09 + 0 ))
Unable to get to fbsd box now but suspicious mind wants to know what
happens with 07 in place of 09.
Interestingly enough, bash gives a proper explanation:
bash$ echo
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 07:34:06PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> ...
> > Is this intentional?
>
> Yes, it was changed with r216547, December 2010.
>
> This was done to avoid an inconsistency where constants starting with
> "0" and containing "8" or "9" were decimal, so something like
> $((018-0
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:09:02AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
> I have a construct in a shell script that I had been using under
> stable/8 (most recently, @r240259), but which throws an error under
> stable/9 (at least as early as @r238602):
> $ echo $(( ( $( date +%m ) - 1 ) / 3 + 1 ))
> 3
>
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 01:20:07PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Wolfskill wrote:
>
> > $ echo $(( 09 + 0 ))
> >
>
> Unable to get to fbsd box now but suspicious mind wants to know what
> happens with 07 in place of 09.
As (I) expected, it's handled Just
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Wolfskill wrote:
> $ echo $(( 09 + 0 ))
>
Unable to get to fbsd box now but suspicious mind wants to know what
happens with 07 in place of 09.
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I have a construct in a shell script that I had been using under
stable/8 (most recently, @r240259), but which throws an error under
stable/9 (at least as early as @r238602):
$ echo $(( ( $( date +%m ) - 1 ) / 3 + 1 ))
3
$ uname -r
8.3-PRERELEASE
$ echo $(( ( $( date +%m ) - 1 ) / 3 + 1 ))
arithm
