Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:47:54 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, 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: <12099.838712874@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:35:50 PDT." <199607300735.AAA03429@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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I personally prefer my variable expansions to be *always* bracketed,
whether they need it lexically or not, simply because it causes the
variable names to stand out better in the text.
Jordan
> * 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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