From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:33:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Supplant the "while case ... break ;; esac" idiom
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709251132110.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7v4phj6yxb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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...

But would you not have to redirect stderr to /dev/null, then?

In the same vein, we could replace "true" by "! false".

That's such a good idea that I'll go and make a patch.

Ciao,
Dscho