Re: Inconsistent arithmetic evaluation of parameters

From	Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Inconsistent arithmetic evaluation of parameters
Date	2015-09-02 09:16 +0200
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Dennis Williamson <dennistwilliamson@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Dennis Williamson <dennistwilliamson@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > $ echo $((foo))  # expansion succeeds, indirection fails
>> > dash: 4: Illegal number: bar
>>
>> The indirection didn't fail, it just didn't produce a number, so the
>> expression is malformed.
>>
>> Andreas.
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
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>> "And now for something completely different."
>>
>
> I disagree. The _expansion_ produced "bar"

That's not an expansion.  Only $ introduces an expansion.

Andreas.

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Re: Inconsistent arithmetic evaluation of parameters Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> - 2015-09-02 09:16 +0200

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