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In-reply-to: <199607300720.RAA07220@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Tue, 30 Jul 1996 17:20:46 +1000)
Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/etc rc
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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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