Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > You might find this thread amusing. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/7116/focus=7136 > > Historically, I have even avoided accepting ${var#word}, ${var%word}, > and arithmetic expansions. I learnt Unix with a Banaham/Rutter primer in the early eighties. I got hit so often by the "this is now supposed to work in Bourne shells?" surprise it wasn't funny. The first time I saw "for ((i=0; i<$NR; i++)) ..." I thought the author had been smoking too much C and got things confused. It still creeps me out. I am more comfortable doing arithmetic with dc rather than sh. Employing the existing globbing machinery for # and %, on the other hand, seems quite bournesque (still-bourne sounds so ugly) to me. And it is certainly quite more readable than the regexp/expr stuff. If it works. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
