On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:59:30, Steven Penny wrote: > Previously conversions could be triggered by either adding zero (+0), unary > plus (+) or unary minus (-) [1]: [snip]
> However now conversion only happens with adding zero and unary minus: [snip] > Does anyone know where this change was mentioned or why it was done? > > [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/awk.html For those who are interested: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/421904/regression-with-unary-plus (Regression with unary plus, by Steven Penny) As suggested by Stéphane Chazelas in his response, the change in behaviour is problably not intentional. Modifying (i.e. extend it) the '0p_unary_plus CASE' in interpret.h, restores the previous behaviour. Henri -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
