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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] test_cmp: diagnose incorrect arguments
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:39:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSzLcVdzjoacm6=7mDAhUn8j06Z0LXo7r1LMC7Dx_2JZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQNvJ02fm82oBtyyxHUqfNk3oAZJW__Lu2Kn0Qt3VaDWw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:15 PM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:37 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > I don't think this is an error. The program can tell which you meant by
> > the number of arguments. POSIX lays out some rules here (from "man
> > 1posix test" on my system, but I'm sure you can find it online):
>
> I intentionally didn't focus on or mention POSIX in my response
> because I wanted to represent the Real World reason why "x$var" is
> such a common idiom. [...]

I probably should have done a better job in my original response to
Taylor to make it clear that I was talking about Real World (even if
old) rather than POSIX.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-12 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-09  6:08 [PATCH] test_cmp: diagnose incorrect arguments Eric Sunshine
2020-08-09  8:32 ` Shourya Shukla
2020-08-09  8:49   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-08-09 17:42 ` [PATCH v2] " Eric Sunshine
2020-08-09 19:12   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-09 19:34     ` Eric Sunshine
2020-08-10 15:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-11 18:32   ` Taylor Blau
2020-08-11 19:25     ` Eric Sunshine
2020-08-11 21:03       ` Taylor Blau
2020-08-12 15:37       ` Jeff King
2020-08-12 16:15         ` Eric Sunshine
2020-08-12 16:39           ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2020-08-12 17:10             ` Jeff King
2020-10-16  0:17   ` Jeff King
2020-10-16  2:18     ` Eric Sunshine
2020-10-16 18:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-16 20:56         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-16 23:14           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-17  6:06             ` Eric Sunshine

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