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Re: sh emulation POSIX non-conformances ("inf"/"Inf" in arithmetic expressions)

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 12:33 AM Stephane Chazelas
<stephane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> $ Infinity=42 zsh -c 'printf "%g\n" Infinity'
> inf

That's ... curious ...

Infinity=42 zsh -c 'printf "%g\n" $(( Infinity ))'
42

> (as that's what strtod() returns)

Er, hm.  Does that mean we should be using strtod() in math context
instead of hard-coding "Inf" into the lexer?
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