On Feb 5 13:05, Houder wrote: > 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
I forwarded this to the gawk devel ML. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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