From afa112474c981941ad95ef82cbe75479556ed23a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:33:21 +0000 Subject: users/16865: note that -eq is less convient than (( ... == ... )) --- ChangeLog | 8 +++++++- Doc/Zsh/cond.yo | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c8fbe8365..f40bdee55 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2012-03-07 Peter Stephenson + + * 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 * 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). -- cgit 1.4.1