On 2022/03/23 09:49, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 3/23/22 7:56 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
You might not like the terminology, but it is what it is,
and you don't get to arbitrarily redefine it, unless you
change your name to Humpty Dumpty.
Bonus points for the "Through the Looking Glass"
On 3/23/22 7:56 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
You might not like the terminology, but it is what it is,
and you don't get to arbitrarily redefine it, unless you
change your name to Humpty Dumpty.
Bonus points for the "Through the Looking Glass" reference.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to
On 3/21/22 8:45 AM, Andreas Luik wrote:
Bash Version: 4.4
Patch Level: 20
Release Status: release
Description:
Bash fails to correctly test for parameter to be unset or null when the
parameter is an array reference [*] or [@].
Repeat-By:
myvar[0]=
echo "${myvar[0]:+nonnull}"
-> OK
there is nothing but a simple str minus str, results in null string
some, internal check, to make null nothing strings marked non existing, is
up to you to code, and yet such doesnt exist much i think in sh bashism
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 12:44 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at
Date:Wed, 23 Mar 2022 01:48:48 -0700
From:L A Walsh
Message-ID: <623adef0.1060...@tlinx.org>
| POSIX phraseology applies to the POSIX language.
Which bash is an (extended) implementation of.
| In 'C'
Completely irrelevant.
| In perl:
Also irrelevant.
Date:Wed, 23 Mar 2022 07:38:39 -0400
From:Greg Wooledge
Message-ID:
| But as it happens, the writers of the POSIX standards *did* use that
| word in some places, and so we have to live with it.
The usage much predates POSIX or any of the previous standards.
It
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 01:48:48AM -0700, L A Walsh wrote:
> On 2022/03/23 00:25, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> > The POSIX phraseology is that "null" means the empty string.
>
>POSIX phraseology applies to the POSIX language.
>
> In 'C'
>
> char *s = NULL
> is not the same as
> char *s="";
On 2022/03/23 00:25, Ilkka Virta wrote:
The POSIX phraseology is that "null" means the empty string.
POSIX phraseology applies to the POSIX language.
In 'C'
char *s = NULL
is not the same as
char *s="";
They aren't the same at the machine level nor at the language level.
In
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 11:52 PM L A Walsh wrote:
> On 2022/03/21 05:45, Andreas Luik wrote:
> > Description:
> > Bash fails to correctly test for parameter to be unset or null
> when the parameter is an array reference [*] or [@].
> >
> > Repeat-By:
> >
> > myvar[0]=
> > echo
