From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:29:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Supplant the "while case ... break ;; esac" idiom
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...