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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001088 | 1003.1(2016/18)/Issue7+TC2 | Shell and Utilities | public | 2016-10-18 10:58 | 2016-10-27 18:20 |
| Reporter | Mark_Galeck | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | Editorial | Type | Clarification Requested |
| Status | Closed | Resolution | Withdrawn | ||
| Name | Mark Galeck | ||||
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| Section | 2.10.1 Shell Grammar Lexical Conventions | ||||
| Page Number | 2375 | ||||
| Line Number | 75892-75893 | ||||
| Interp Status | --- | ||||
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| Summary | 0001088: "When more than one rule applies, the highest numbered rule shall apply " is pointless | ||||
| Description | The phrase "When more than one rule applies, the highest numbered rule shall apply" is pointless, since for each production of the grammar, there is at most one rule mentioned after the production in a comment action. Some of the rules do refer to additional rules, but that is not to say an additional rule can be applied to start with, alternatively to the one mentioned in the comment action. | ||||
| Desired Action | Delete the phrase above, so one is left with the sentence "A rule may in turn refer to another rule". This leftover is wholly obvious, so the whole sentence may be deleted altogether. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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As I interpret things, this issue is relayed to your issue 1093. The "or applies globally" that you want to delete in 1093, I believe, means "rule one always applies". Hence any time another rule explicitly applies, there are two, and the higher numbered one takes precedence (and can then delegate back to rule 1 again if it wants, as for example rule 7a does, sometimes.) This all looks to be a rather convoluted way of getting the desired result, but I don't believe it is incorrect. |
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Fine. If the Austin Group is OK with "convoluted" way of explaining things, as it sounds like that's the case, well, I have done my civic programmer duty to report, and then I am happy if you don't change anything . As a colleague once put it "if software were easy to understand, anybody could do it, and then we would not be paid the big bucks that we are, now are we?". No sarcasm intended. |
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This report can be cancelled. |
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Withdrawn by submitter in 0001088:0003469 |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-18 10:58 | Mark_Galeck | New Issue | |
| 2016-10-18 10:58 | Mark_Galeck | Name | => Mark Galeck |
| 2016-10-18 10:58 | Mark_Galeck | Section | => 2.10.1 Shell Grammar Lexical Conventions |
| 2016-10-18 10:58 | Mark_Galeck | Page Number | => 2375 |
| 2016-10-18 10:58 | Mark_Galeck | Line Number | => 75892-75893 |
| 2016-10-19 09:17 | kre | Note Added: 0003431 | |
| 2016-10-19 10:49 | Mark_Galeck | Note Added: 0003435 | |
| 2016-10-19 15:48 | nick | Relationship added | related to 0001093 |
| 2016-10-27 12:46 | Mark_Galeck | Note Added: 0003469 | |
| 2016-10-27 18:20 | Don Cragun | Interp Status | => --- |
| 2016-10-27 18:20 | Don Cragun | Note Added: 0003480 | |
| 2016-10-27 18:20 | Don Cragun | Status | New => Closed |
| 2016-10-27 18:20 | Don Cragun | Resolution | Open => Withdrawn |
| 2018-04-12 15:38 | eblake | Relationship added | duplicate of 0001100 |
