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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/Zsh/cond.yo | 5 |
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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2012-03-07 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> + + * users/16865: Doc/Zsh/cond.yo: note that -eq and friends are + less convenient for purely numeric work than conditional + expressions. + 2012-03-06 Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> * Alexey: 30322: Completion/Unix/Command/_xmlsoft: accept more @@ -16088,5 +16094,5 @@ ***************************************************** * This is used by the shell to define $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL -* $Revision: 1.5606 $ +* $Revision: 1.5607 $ ***************************************************** diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/cond.yo b/Doc/Zsh/cond.yo index 71971b4b3..9f8a7d820 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/cond.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/cond.yo @@ -151,6 +151,11 @@ based on ASCII value of their characters. ) item(var(exp1) tt(-eq) var(exp2))( true if var(exp1) is numerically equal to var(exp2). +Note that for purely numeric comparisons use of the +tt(LPAR()LPAR())var(...)tt(RPAR()RPAR()) builtin described in +ifzman(the section `ARITHMETIC EVALUATION')\ +ifnzman(noderef(Arithmetic Evaluation)) is more convenient than +conditional expressions. ) item(var(exp1) tt(-ne) var(exp2))( true if var(exp1) is numerically not equal to var(exp2). |