Bug Report for seq version 5.2.1

2005-11-14 Thread Michael Hyde
seq 1 0 2 produces a never-ending sequences of 1's. Shouldn't it just exit with an error message? ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Bug Report for seq version 5.2.1

2005-11-14 Thread Paul Eggert
Michael Hyde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: seq 1 0 2 produces a never-ending sequences of 1's. Shouldn't it just exit with an error message? In general, it's hard to predict ahead of time whether seq will terminate. It's not equivalent to the halting problem, but it's harder than it sounds.