From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS53758 23.128.96.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8631F8C1 for ; Mon, 4 May 2020 16:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729694AbgEDQd1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2020 12:33:27 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:36018 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1729643AbgEDQd0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2020 12:33:26 -0400 Received: (qmail 31974 invoked by uid 109); 4 May 2020 16:33:26 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Mon, 04 May 2020 16:33:26 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 18581 invoked by uid 111); 4 May 2020 16:33:26 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 04 May 2020 12:33:26 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 12:33:25 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Carlo Marcelo Arenas =?utf-8?B?QmVsw7Nu?= Cc: Junio C Hamano , Danh Doan , clime , Git List Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x" Message-ID: <20200504163325.GA18103@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20200503090952.GA170768@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20200503091157.GA170902@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20200503114351.GA28680@danh.dev> <20200504151351.GC11373@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20200504160709.GB12842@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20200504162844.GE86805@Carlos-MBP> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20200504162844.GE86805@Carlos-MBP> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 09:28:44AM -0700, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 12:07:09PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > -- >8 -- > > Subject: CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x" > > > > The advice to use "$x" rather than "x" in arithmetric expansion was > > working around a dash bug fixed in 0.5.4. Even Debian oldstable has > > 0.5.7 these days. > > that would be oldoldstable, oldstable is actually in 0.5.8 ;) Oh, you're right. I forgot they're doing an extra layer these days. It will officially become obsolete in less than 2 months. :) -Peff