Re: make: new modifyer :Y

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:19:39AM +0200, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
 > > suddenly the comparison is done as strings and becomes false, and the
 > > program logic fails
 > 
 > The above program does exactly what you say -- compare two *strings*.
 > This is DWIS. Neither A nor B should be implicitely converted to 1 or 0 here.
 > Values should be converted to 1 and 0 if and only if context requires it.
 > There are no such context in the above program.
 > 
 > > One of the goals/problems in language design is to sort out the
 > > evaluation and typing rules to prevent, or at least minimize, the
 > > existence of this kind of anomalous behavior.
 > 
 > See above.

You've missed the point.

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David A. Holland
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