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Re: Man Page: Confusing wording


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: Man Page: Confusing wording
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 09:09:11 -0400
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 05:00:51PM +0200, Lars Krueger wrote:
>    The line
> 
>        Of these list operators, && and || have equal precedence, followed
>    by ; and &, which have equal precedence.
> 
>    in the man page is rather confusing. I had to refresh my bison and
>    check parser.y to understand it. :-) I think, the following would be
>    easier to understand.
> 
>        Of these list operators, && and || have equal precedence to each
>    other, and higher precedence to both ; and &. The operators ; and &
>    have equal precedence to each other.

I disagree that the proposed change is any better than the original.
Perhaps you could say how you were confused by the original sentence,
and what you thought it meant.



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