Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:28:53 -0600 | From | Michael Elizabeth Chastain <> | Subject | Ouch, who's been writing "if [ ! "$CONFIG_FOO" = "n" ]" ? |
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I'm fighting with xconfig again and I noticed some lines like this have been showing up in the kernel source:
# drivers/net/Config.in if [ ! "$CONFIG_PPP" = "n" ]; then
Please don't do this. In bash, the operator precedence is undocumented, and I hate to rely on undocumented behaviour. In TCL, the operator precedence is documented: ! is higher precedence than =, just like in C.
I'd really like to deploy my new bison-based parser, but until then, I have to do conservative things like throw "!" out of Config Language.
Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mailto:mec@shout.net> "love without fear"
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