From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:05:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow shell scripts to run with non-Bash /bin/sh
Message-ID: <86abrfy377.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7v8x6zinjf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I do not doubt that "while case $# in 0) break ;; esac" does not
> work for your shell.  But I think the above comment is grossly
> misleading.

Personally, I find this idiom distasteful.

I'd do either
while case $# in 0) false ;; *) true esac

or, more likely 
while : do case $# in 0) break;; esac

But doing a break inside of the while _condition_ rather than the body
just feels wrong to me.

-- 
David Kastrup