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Date:      Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:09:13 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>
To:        Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-10@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r272918 - stable/10/contrib/one-true-awk
Message-ID:  <54394819.7050901@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1410111407050.6601@woozle.rinet.ru>
References:  <201410102318.s9ANIjps063160@svn.freebsd.org> <20141011064308.GN19486@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1410111407050.6601@woozle.rinet.ru>

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On 10/11/14 05:08, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>
>>> --- stable/10/contrib/one-true-awk/awk.1	Fri Oct 10 22:18:09 2014	(r272917)
>>> +++ stable/10/contrib/one-true-awk/awk.1	Fri Oct 10 23:18:44 2014	(r272918)
>>> @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ or of
>>>   if no argument.
>>>   .TP
>>>   .B rand
>>> -random number on (0,1)
>>> +random number on [0,1)
>> --------------------^
>>
>> The above looks like a typo
> Doesn't really: random number *could* be zero, hence inclusive (square)
> bracket.  (on the other side, it could never be exactly 1, hence
> exclusive, round bracket at the right side).
>
> And, yes, unbalanced brackets on those math are disturbing ;-P
>
>
Yes, as marck@ has noted, it's regular math set notation, which
OTOH, is probably not very common in man pages.

Pedro.



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