From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:45:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] t: rev-parse-parents: avoid yoda conditions
Message-ID: <CAMP44s112mwgs=8n0XCnTtPM2V-O5RYE2ns+fjCvgkxj+kEY8Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130903080358.GA30158@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:51:07AM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
>
>> > I wonder if we should have a:
>> >
>> >   test_cmp_args () {
>> >           echo "$1" >expect &&
>> >           echo "$1" >actual &&
>> >           test_cmp expect actual
>> >   }
>> >
>> > to let these remain one-liners like:
>> >
>> >   test_cmp_args "$(git rev-parse start)" "$(git rev-parse final^1^1^1)"
>>
>> This idea come up before, but there is one flaw which makes this
>> function less useful: a non-zero exit code of the commands in the
>> command substitutions would be lost.
>
> Good point. You'd probably have to do something gross with eval, like:
>
>   test_cmp_args () {
>     eval "$1" >expect &&
>     eval "$2" >actual &&

I don't see any reason to perpetuate these yoda comparisons.

eval "$2" >expect &&
eval "$1" >actual &&

>     test_cmp expect actual
>   }




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Felipe Contreras