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Re: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix

Started byChet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
First post2019-06-19 10:51 -0400
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  Re: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2019-06-19 10:51 -0400

#15059 — Re: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix

FromChet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Date2019-06-19 10:51 -0400
SubjectRe: Arithmetic evaluation of negative numbers with base prefix
Message-ID<mailman.455.1560956180.10840.bug-bash@gnu.org>
On 6/18/19 12:13 PM, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> 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.

It's unclear. When Korn (and Fowler) left at&t, and at&t closed down the
ast software repository and it moved to github, the development status
got murky. There are people committing to that repository, but I don't
believe Korn is involved.

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