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Re: wrong and unclear conditional syntax documentation


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: wrong and unclear conditional syntax documentation
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:25:02 -0400

On Fri, 2019-03-22 at 10:59 -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
> It's also unclear what is different about the conditions being
> tested.  Different levels of interpolation?

There is no difference other than the delimiters used.  arg1 and arg2
are treated identically in all cases.

I don't really know why so many options are allowed, it seems
unnecessary to me.  We allow different ones so that you can write the
conditional without worrying about escaping characters.




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