On May 9,  8:10pm, kre@munnari.OZ.AU (Robert Elz) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: pkg/36257 (games/wesnoth has msgfmt problems (plurals) [NetBS

| The following reply was made to PR pkg/36257; it has been noted by GNATS.
| 
| From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
| To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
| Cc: 
| Subject: Re: pkg/36257 (games/wesnoth has msgfmt problems (plurals) [NetBSD 3.0]) 
| Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 03:07:51 +0700
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|      Date:        Wed,  9 May 2007 18:55:03 +0000 (UTC)
|      From:        christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
|      Message-ID:  <20070509185503.7E26263B853@narn.NetBSD.org>
|  
|    |  You can always use parentheses:
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|  They're not immune from problems either.   Consider:
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|  	test \( = \)
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|  true or false?   Either answer is possible (and defensible) and I'm
|  pretty sure both have been given by different implementations.

Sure... By this you mean write:

	test \( $a = $b \)

instead:

	test \( "$a" = "$b" \)

right? I agree though that parentheses can lose if you are not careful.

christos