>>>>> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:43:59 +0200
> Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > elif [[ ${PN} != "leechcraft-core" ]]; then
>> > > CAKE_USE_DIR="${S}"/src/plugins/${PN#leechcraft-}
>> >
>> > Don't quote that. It looks bad that the left-side is unquoted and
>> > right side is quoted.
>>
>> it's a string, what's the problem?
> It's just a matter of taste. I think it looks better if both sides
> are quoted, or neither is.
But both sides of [[ ]] aren't symmetric, in the first place:
# When the == and != operators are used, the string to the right of
# the operator is considered a pattern and matched according to the
# rules described below under Pattern Matching.
So there's almost never a reason for quoting the left-hand side, while
on the right-hand side quotes will suppress pattern matching.
(Of course, in the example above it doesn't matter, because the string
doesn't contain any special characters.)
Ulrich
