Subject: Re: test: ==: unexpected operator
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/22/2006 18:57:35
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 12:11:26AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> For the rest of you: please keep the bikeshed to your own stuff. In case 
> you forgot, NetBSD is an operating system to assist users, not force 
> anyone's politics upon them. If a user wants to use == instead of = and if 
> there's no strong reason to disallow that, I see no reason for denying 
> things to him.

I have considerable trouble understanding why any rational person would
take the text quoted above as a reasoned argument about why we should
change the syntax of our sh in a way that decreases the portability of
shell scripts, rather than as a bunch of empty rhetoric.

I also am not sure whether I am to take the use of the word "bikeshed" as
some kind of magic invocation that is meant to cause me to idly nod my
head, pretend I agree with you, and then shut up.  Can you advise?  I do
not want to get it wrong...

Thor