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Re: [PATCH] docs: More precisely, a double-quoted expression

ivan tkachenko wrote on Thu, 12 Nov 2020 20:42 +0300:
> Specifies exact kind of quoting which is assumed when parsing arithmetic
> ((expressions)).
> ---
>  Doc/Zsh/arith.yo | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/arith.yo b/Doc/Zsh/arith.yo
> index c152bf48d..bc3e35ad5 100644
> --- a/Doc/Zsh/arith.yo
> +++ b/Doc/Zsh/arith.yo
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The tt(let) builtin command takes arithmetic expressions as arguments; each
>  is evaluated separately.  Since many of the arithmetic operators, as well
>  as spaces, require quoting, an alternative form is provided: for any
>  command which begins with a `tt(LPAR()LPAR())', all the characters until a
> -matching `tt(RPAR()RPAR())' are treated as a quoted expression and
> +matching `tt(RPAR()RPAR())' are treated as a double-quoted expression and
>  arithmetic expansion performed as for an argument of tt(let).  More
>  precisely, `tt(LPAR()LPAR())var(...)tt(RPAR()RPAR())' is equivalent to
>  `tt(let ")var(...)tt(")'.  The return status is 0 if the arithmetic value

Thanks, applied.
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