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| Started by | Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> |
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| First post | 2019-06-17 11:47 -0400 |
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Re: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-17 11:47 -0400
| From | Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> |
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| Date | 2019-06-17 11:47 -0400 |
| Subject | Re: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix |
| Message-ID | <mailman.287.1560786517.10840.bug-bash@gnu.org> |
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 <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ArithmeticExpression> and <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls>.
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