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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:35:50 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:47:54 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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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