[gambit-list] Help system

Adrien Piérard pierarda at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Feb 12 21:32:15 EST 2009


>
> Thanks for the feedback.  I tried replacing == by = on Mac OS X and it
> still works fine, so I've put a patch on the repository.  I guess the
> Mac OS X /bin/sh has an extension which allows == in addition to the
> (older?) = .
>

Indeed.

String equality
[ "foo" = "foo" ] && echo ok

Number equality
[ 1 -eq 1 ] && echo ok


I think there is no reason to have "==", especially as a alias of "=".
Should I be an OSX dev, I'd demonstrate for the removal of this from the
default shell.
Default behaviors must be portable or must not be.</war->.

P!

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