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Re: [PATCH] Describe a Solaris /bin/sh bug w.r.t. for loops.


From: Stefano Lattarini
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Describe a Solaris /bin/sh bug w.r.t. for loops.
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 21:10:11 +0200
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At Friday 02 July 2010, Eric Blake wrote:
> Thanks for the initial work.  Since both of us are already named as
> authors of the patch, I didn't see the need to repeat our names in
>  the changelog as the reporter.  Then I fixed some wording and
>  condensed the example from 3 down to 2 @example sections.  I also
>  minimized quoting to make the examples as compact as possible
>  (even though you are technically correct that "$v" is better than
>  $v in general, it doesn't matter for these specific examples). 
>  Here's what I squashed in before pushing.
Nice trimming.  I somewhat sensed my attempt was too much verbose, but 
I was afraid to lose important bits of information by shortening it. 
Luckily, your formulation doesn't seem to suffer of this problem.

Regards,
   Stefano



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