Path: csiph.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Greg Wooledge Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:47:08 -0400 Lines: 9 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20190614141947.GB27242@tower> <20190617133026.GC27242@tower> <20190617154708.GG2072@eeg.ccf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1560786519 5507 209.51.188.17 (17 Jun 2019 15:48:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: bug-bash@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190617133026.GC27242@tower> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 139.137.100.1 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <20190617154708.GG2072@eeg.ccf.org> X-Mailman-Original-References: <20190614141947.GB27242@tower> <20190617133026.GC27242@tower> Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:15053 On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 02:30:27PM +0100, Jeremy Townshend wrote: > In the meantime it would seem cautionary to advise against the pitfall of > using base# prefixed to variables (contrary to > mywiki.wooledge.org/ArithmeticExpression) unless you can be confident that > they will never be decremented below zero. Fair point. I've updated and .