On 11/12/20 12:07 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 12/11/2020 17:17, Ben Pfaff wrote:
* doc/coreutils.texi (test invocation): Mark the "==" operator as a GNU
extension, to reduce the number of people who accidentally use it while
thinking it's portable.
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 8d9320ca2..601b06300 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -13336,6 +13336,7 @@ True if the strings are equal.
@opindex ==
@cindex equal string check
True if the strings are equal (synonym for =).
+This form is a GNU extension.
@item @var{string1} != @var{string2}
@opindex !=
Well it's not GNU specific.
Also I think it's proposed in POSIX, Eric?
The proposal has been floated before, but at the present, the current
thinking is that it is saner standardizing '[[' than it is to retrofit
'==' into '[', but even that is an uphill battle:
https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=375
I agree that we should mention its lack of portability though.
Concur.