On Jan 20, 7:28 am, Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chaze...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > 2010-01-12 22:07:31 -0500, Chet Ramey: > > > > > On 1/12/10 5:16 AM, Stephane CHAZELAS wrote: > > > 2010-01-11, 17:42(-05), Chet Ramey: > > >>>> Think of it as > > > >>>> x = $(( RANDOM%6+1 + RANDOM%6+1 )) > > >>>> y = dice[x] > > >>>> dice[RANDOM%6+1 + RANDOM%6+1] = y + 1 > > >>>> return y > > >>> [...] > > > >>> I would still consider that a bug. > > > >> OK. But everyone does it the same way. > > > > Except for pdksh, mksh, posh, perl, C. > > > The three shells in your list are all variants of the same base. It's > > like using three different releases of bash. The other two aren't > > shells. C is a reasonable comparison, but there are other differences > > in how the languages are parsed and executed. > > > > I think by "everyone", you mean "AT&T ksh" and "zsh" or do you > > > know any other shell or language that behaves like that? > > > I haven't done an extensive investigation. It's not really a significant > > issue. It's important enough that bash, ksh, and zsh agree. We don't > > need more incompatibilities between the major shells. > > [...] > > Hi Chet, > > Please note that that bug has now been fixed in > ksh93:http://mailman.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-developers/2010q1/00055... > so they don't agree anymore. > > -- > Stephane
I wasn't able to access that link until I changed it to https https://mailman.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-developers/2010q1/000550.html
