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Date:      Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:35:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        bde@zeta.org.au
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/etc rc
Message-ID:  <199607300735.AAA03429@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199607300720.RAA07220@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Tue, 30 Jul 1996 17:20:46 %2B1000)

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 * the test is actually "X${foo}" != X"NO".  The braces mainly waste space.
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is quite inconsistent itself, shouldn't it be

X"$foo" != X"NO"

or

"X$foo" != "XNO"

if we are converting syntactically equivalent statments for
consistency's sake?

Satoshi



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