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Re: Question about testing with variable operators
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Question about testing with variable operators |
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Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:56:46 +0200 |
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"Steven W. Orr" <steveo@syslang.net> writes:
> As a work around, I can use eval or the builtin test, but my question is
> this: Is this a bug or is there a reason that it should work for
> arithmetic but not for the test [[ operator?
[[ is a reserved word like if, which triggers special parsing rules, so
you cannot use it like this.
Andreas.
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