On 2023-10-29 03:18, Oğuz wrote:
I think the intented behavior was skipping both leading and trailing
horizontal whitespace, which makes sense as a QOL feature, and switching
over to strtoimax changed this.
If that's the intent, which is self-consistent but which disagrees with
all other shel
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 8:49 AM Paul Eggert wrote:
> My understanding is that Bash was intended to allow both leading and
> trailing whitespace. This is compatible with ksh and with Dash. If
> that's the intent, Bash should be consistent about it, just as ksh and
> Dash are. There seems little poi
I'm more concerned that the error message is misleading; "integer
expression expected" is NOT true; rather an integer LITERAL is expected
(meaning an optional sign followed by one or more digits).
As for fixing the inconsistency, I would rather get rid of whitespace
skipping entirely, perhaps with
