Re: [PATCH] Supplant the "while case ... break ;; esac" idiom

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 25, 2007, 06:29 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4phj6yxb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <85hcljgtlr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> As a completely irrelevant side note: the autoconf documentation
> mentions that "false" is more portable than "true" since calling it
> returns a non-zero exit status even when it is not installed or
> built-in.

Ah, I like that ;-) It is obvious when you think about it, and it is so true but in a very twisted way...

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