Change 23663 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2004/12/21 11:58:53
Note that the shell's test uses eq etc for numbers, = etc for
strings, the reverse of Perl, which is definitely a trap.
Spotted by Alexei Alexandrov.
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/AUTHORS#127 edit
... //depot/perl/pod/perltrap.pod#33 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/AUTHORS#127 (text) ====
Index: perl/AUTHORS
--- perl/AUTHORS#126~23662~ Mon Dec 20 05:38:45 2004
+++ perl/AUTHORS Tue Dec 21 03:58:53 2004
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
Albert Chin-A-Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Albert Dvornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Alessandro Forghieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+Alexei Alexandrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Alex Gough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Alex Vandiver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Alexander Gough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
==== //depot/perl/pod/perltrap.pod#33 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perltrap.pod
--- perl/pod/perltrap.pod#32~20154~ Fri Jul 11 11:54:09 2003
+++ perl/pod/perltrap.pod Tue Dec 21 03:58:53 2004
@@ -267,6 +267,13 @@
The environment is not automatically made available as separate scalar
variables.
+=item *
+
+The shell's C<test> uses "=", "!=", "<" etc for string comparisons and "-eq",
+"-ne", "-lt" etc for numeric comparisons. This is the reverse of Perl, which
+uses C<eq>, C<ne>, C<lt> for string comparisons, and C<==>, C<!=> C<< < >> etc
+for numeric comparisons.
+
=back
=head2 Perl Traps
End of Patch.
