Re: expr(1) fails on negative arguments (with fix)

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From: guy
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1986 21:27

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> < Nice fix. Try "expr -5 * ---6". The problem cannot be correctly fixed
> < w/out going all out and implementing UMINUS is the yacc grammar. Any
> < takers?

> (fixed in S5) Sorry, but I haven't looked at the expr code to see what
> the real fix was.

It may have been to rewrite the whole thing in C.  It had been so rewritten
as of S3, although the S3 version still maintained the old "index",
"substr", and "length" operators from V7, which were undocumented and caused
confusion if those names appeared as operands.  S5 ripped them out.
-- 
	Guy Harris
	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
	guy@sun.com (or guy@sun.arpa)

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