Re: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix

[Ilkka Virta]

On 18.6. 18:20, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:27:48AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > $ ksh93 -c 'echo ${.sh.version}'
> > Version ABIJM 93v- 2014-09-29
> > $ ksh93 -c 'echo $(( 10# ))'
> > ksh93:  10# : arithmetic syntax error
>
> I guess most Linux distributions are not shipping the 2014 version of
> ksh93 yet...?

Yeah, I had the one from Debian. I'm not even sure what the current 
version of ksh is.

At least the newer versions throw an error instead of silently doing the 
unexpected.

> wooledg:~$ ksh -c 'echo $(( 10# ))'
> 0
> wooledg:~$ dpkg -l ksh | tail -1
> ii  ksh            93u+20120801-3.4 amd64        Real, AT&T version of the Korn 
> shell
> wooledg:~$ ksh -c 'echo ${.sh.version}'
> Version AJM 93u+ 2012-08-01
>
> Seems kinda weird to continue calling it "ksh93" if it's being changed,
> but I don't make the decisions.


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