Re: /etc/shells management
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 03:48:37 -0500, Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> said:
> I do continue to think that:
> if [ -n "$var" ]
> is more readable than
> if [ "${var+set}" = "set" ]
> ...but I remain open to being directed to a section of the Policy
> manual that firmly establishes my wrongness on that front as well.
> :)
Now you are talking style issues.
I still code reflextively from days when the only portable way
was
if [ "X$var" != "X" ]; then foo; fi
Readability lies in the eye of the beholder; for me this is idiomatic
and eminently readable. I confess that I rarely use the "${var+set}"
idiom, I don't remember why I used it in favour of the "X$2" idiom
there.
manoj
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