On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 07:34:06PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:09:02AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > > $ echo $(( ( $( date +%m ) - 1 ) / 3 + 1 )) > > arithmetic expression: expecting ')': " ( 09 - 1 ) / 3 + 1 " ... > This was done to avoid an inconsistency where constants starting with > "0" and containing "8" or "9" were decimal, so something like > $((018-017)) expanded to 3.
Jilles, Would it be possible to improve on the error message? If David had been given the Bash error message, I suspect he would have figured out the issue right away. -- -- David (obr...@freebsd.org) _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
