[Toybox] expr "horizontal lines" in extended description?
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Mon Dec 1 15:15:35 PST 2014
Clarification received from The Austin Group.
(Unfortunately the PDF he mentions costs $2500, and is thus completely
irrelevant in 2014.)
On 12/01/14 09:46, Geoff Clare wrote:
> Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote, on 29 Nov 2014:
>>
>> In http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/expr.html
>> the extended description says that operators of equal precedence are
>> separated by horizontal lines.
>>
>> It's an html table, all the entries are separated by horizontal lines. I
>> know that * and / are of equal precedence by poking at the gnu/dammit
>> implementation of expr, but I dunno how to tell that from the spec?
>
> This is a limitation of the HTML translation. In the PDF the table
> only has horizontal lines between groups of entries, as follows (just
> showing the operator, for brevity):
>
> ----
> |
> ----
> &
> ----
> =
> >
> >=
> <
> <=
> !=
> ----
> +
> -
> ----
> *
> /
> %
> ----
> :
> ----
> (expr)
> ----
> integer
> string
> ----
>
> The PDF version always takes precdence over the HTML version.
>
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