Bug#267142: huh?

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> && was perfectly well-supported in the v7 Unix shell. Of course it isn't
> typical for command arguments; that's because it isn't a command
> argument, but an operator for joining two pipelines together.

Um, but that's a totally different syntax.

<test foo && test bar> is not the same as <test foo "&&" bar>

They often behave the same, but they are still different expressions.

> The Autoconf manual refers (Portable Shell / Limitations of Builtins) to
> precedence problems on System V as the rationale for avoiding -a and -o.
> I don't see how you can logically use the behaviour of Version 7 Unix as
> justification for anything while overlooking System V.

Huh?  Version 7 is the basis for BSD; System V is not.

Thomas