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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: t6044 broken on pu
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 04:33:23 -0400
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On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 08:30:51AM +0200, demerphq wrote:

> > -       perl -le 'print for $ARGV[0]..$ARGV[1]' -- "$@"
> > +       test_seq_counter__=$1
> > +       while test "$test_seq_counter__" -le $2
> > +       do
> > +               echo "$test_seq_counter__"
> > +               test_seq_counter__=$((test_seq_counter__ + 1))
> > +       done
> >  }
> 
> Is that perl snippet ever called with non-numeric output?
> 
> perl -le 'print for $ARGV[0]..$ARGV[1]' -- A E
> A
> B
> C
> D
> E

I had that thought, too, but I think it would be an error to do so.
test_seq is supposed to be a replacement for "seq", which does not
understand non-numeric sequences.

A quick "git grep test_seq" seems to back that up.

-Peff