svn commit: r272918 - stable/10/contrib/one-true-awk

Pedro Giffuni pfg at freebsd.org
Sat Oct 11 15:09:15 UTC 2014


On 10/11/14 05:08, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>
>>> --- stable/10/contrib/one-true-awk/awk.1	Fri Oct 10 22:18:09 2014	(r272917)
>>> +++ stable/10/contrib/one-true-awk/awk.1	Fri Oct 10 23:18:44 2014	(r272918)
>>> @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ or of
>>>   if no argument.
>>>   .TP
>>>   .B rand
>>> -random number on (0,1)
>>> +random number on [0,1)
>> --------------------^
>>
>> The above looks like a typo
> Doesn't really: random number *could* be zero, hence inclusive (square)
> bracket.  (on the other side, it could never be exactly 1, hence
> exclusive, round bracket at the right side).
>
> And, yes, unbalanced brackets on those math are disturbing ;-P
>
>
Yes, as marck@ has noted, it's regular math set notation, which
OTOH, is probably not very common in man pages.

Pedro.


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