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From: td@pla... td@pla...
Subject: rc syntax bug
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 13:11:58 -0500

Stephen Hemminger <postman.ncube.com!sch> thinks there's a bug:
>Isn't it surprising:
>	if (! ~ () ()) echo 'i am a bug'

I'm sorry, what do you think the bug is?
The syntax is obviously ok, and the result is exactly what
I intended.  A match against an empty list always fails, the
definition being that at least one alternative must
succeed for the match to succeed.